Early Middle Ages

From the Soil to the Iron Product - the Technology of Medieval Iron Smelting

Author(s)
Adam Thiele 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/2
2013 EXARC meeting at Csiki Pihenökert (HU)
***Nowadays, the development of technology rushes past the people of the machine-based technical civilisation, therefore they fail to understand the technological wonders that surround them. One of these is the ancient technology of iron smelting...

National Museum of Tatarstan (RU)

Member of EXARC
No

The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan is one of the oldest museums in Russia, representing the biggest reserve of the cultural monuments of Tatarstan and Russia's peoples as well as the other world civilisations. The Museum is located in the former Gostinyi dvor, built at the beginning of the XIX century, the historical and cultural monument of the federal importance (note: "Gostinyi dvor" is a historic Russian term for an indoor market, or shopping centre). At the present time the collection of the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan features more than 910.000 objects representing history, culture and traditions of the peoples of the Volga Region, Russia, Western and Eastern world cultures.

The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan is one of the oldest museums in Russia, representing the biggest reserve of the cultural monuments of Tatarstan and Russia's peoples as well as the other world civilisations...

Book Review: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences by L. Shillito, E. Fairnell and H. S. Williams (eds)

Author(s)
Katy Whitaker 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/2
A set of eleven articles resulting from the call for papers for the Sixth UK Experimental Archaeology Conference (held in York in January 2012) is now published in a special issue of the Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences...

Rezerwat Archeologiczny - Bedkowice (PL)

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No

Będkowice, created on the place of early medieval settlement, consisting of ancient defending settlement and barrow cemetery (8th – 9th century), about 50 hectares large.

Hillfort in Będkowice, located on top of the hill called Sokola Góra, is one of the best preserved hillforts in this area. Two rings of banks and ditches are still perfectly visible, however whole area of the hillfort is covered by forest now.

The external bank was larger, with 15 m of width, while the internal one was 7 m wide. The excavations inside the hillfort brought many interesting finds including arrow points and pottery and uncovered remains of late medieval tower build in the place of the hillfort.

Conference Review: 8th Experimental Archaeology Conference, Oxford 2014

Author(s)
E. Giovanna Fregni 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/1
EAC Conferences
***The conference unofficially began in the Royal Blenheim pub at 6 pm on Thursday evening. Conference staff and attendees filtered in throughout the evening eventually filling the back room. The pub had excellent food and a good variety of local ales. Those who managed to brave the flooding introduced themselves and got to know...

Iron Smelting Camp

Date
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Organised by
Adam Thiele cand. PhD
Country
Hungary

The venue of the camp will be close to Lake Balaton, in Somogyfajsz, where a bloomery workshop with several furnaces from the 10th century was excavated over which a Bloomery Museum was erected. During this camp we will mine local bog iron, burn charcoal in a charcoal pile, build furnaces, smelt iron and forge the extracted iron blooms.