Saxon Cookery
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United Kingdom
LEARN TO COOK DARK AGE CUISINE AND FEAST LIKE A LORD IN OUR SAXON HALL!
Early Middle Ages
Battle for Britannia - Saxons invade Butser Ancient Farm
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United Kingdom
A spectacular weekend of re-enactments as invading Saxons clash with resident Romans and Celts to claim victory over the beautiful Butser Ancient Farm.
A Sustainable Revolution for Open-Air Museums @ ICOM
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EXARC
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Czech Republic
EXARC invites you to a session during the ICOM General Conference in Prague. We are in a unique position where our teaching of the past offers our visitors lessons for the future; we are more relevant than ever. How to develop the strength of open-air museums by building partnerships with other organisations?
Forging Weekend
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the Netherlands
Forging is from all ages. Even before the use of metal, there used to be a flint smith. Flint was used to make sharp objects, such as knifes, axes, and drawbars. Later, these type of objects were made of bronze and iron and steel.
Experimental Archaeology Student Symposium
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United Kingdom
The Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology is proud to announce that the 3rd Experimental Archaeology Student Symposium, will be hosted by the University of Liverpool in June 2022 in partnership with EXARC.
Thomas Keyes
Member of EXARC since
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United Kingdom
Crafts & Skills
I make insular manuscripts and their material components including parchment and pigments under period conditions.
A Proposed New Appearance of the Iron Stand from Sutton Hoo, Based on Existing Material
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The stand and its previous representations
The ‘iron stand’ was excavated in 1939, one of the many objects discovered in the Sutton Hoo, Mound 1 ship burial. To date, the stand is unique in the archaeological record but due to adverse burial conditions it is incomplete (See Figure 1). This makes its appearance and function difficult to discern. Due to this difficulty, while the first description of the object was published in 1940 (Phillips, 1940, pp.
A Singing Bone from the Mätäjärvi (‘Rotten Lake’) Quarter of Medieval Turku, Finland: Experimental Reconstructions and Contemporary Musical Exploration
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At the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, in the town of Turku (SW Finland), a new quarter was built near a lake that came to be known as Mätäjärvi (‘Rotten Lake’), possibly because it was polluted by the waste from leather tanners, shoemakers, and other artisans. In the excavated remains of a wooden house in this quarter, objects like leather shoes, clippings and scrapings, imported stoneware from Germany...
Bone Pipes with Parallel Tone Holes. Materials from Medieval Poland (until the End of the 12th C)
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Bone and wood pipes are among the medieval aerophones which have been discovered during archaeological excavations in Poland. The ones that interested us are characterized by a parallel arrangement of sound holes. They are short pipes, several centimetres long, with two holes cut in different places of the pipe body, either at one end or in the middle...
Early Medieval Bone Pipes: Understanding the Sounds of These Instruments through Reconstruction
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Introduction
Bone pipes dating from both the early and late medieval period have been found in the archaeological record from across central and Northern Europe such as in: The Netherlands (Tamboer, 2004), Denmark, Sweden (Lund, 1981a), Poland (Poplawska, 1998), Latvia (Urtan, 1970) and Estonia (Oras, 2015) (Tamboer and Rainio, 2020). One of the first comprehensive studies of these instruments as a whole is that by Brade, published in 1975.
