Iron Age

Pancake Day at The Crannog Centre

Pancake Day
Date
Organised by
The Scottish Crannog Centre (UK)
Country
United Kingdom

Join us to celebrate pancake day the prehistoric way!

The Crannog Kitchen will be cooking up a treat for Pancake day, using Iron Age flours and foraged ingredients to create prehistoric pancakes. You can also join in with hands on activities working with wool and clay, and see real 2500 year old objects from the Crannog People in the museum.

Foraging Workshop

Foraging Workshop
Date
Organised by
Hunebedcentrum (NL)
Country
the Netherlands

Have you always wanted to know what nature has to offer in terms of edibles? Then this is your chance! In 2022 the
Hunebedcentrum organizes our foraging workshops, together with experienced instructors Leah & Tim of 'In het Wilde Weg'. Per season you will be taken into nature and you will learn what there is to eat (and drink), both above and below ground. 

The Little Bowl That Could! Experimental Iron Smelting in a Bowl Furnace

Author(s)
Yvette A Marks 1 ✉,
V. Lucas 1 ✉,
D. O’ Frighil 2 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2022/1
The bowl furnace has been a somewhat neglected topic in the early history of iron making, often overshadowed in experimental work by the shaft furnace. This assessment attempts to re-evaluate the position of the bowl furnace in early iron-making - firstly by looking at how it is regarded in scholarly literature, and secondly, through an experimental reconstruction programme...

Experiments and Thoughts on Amber Working during the Iron Age

Author(s)
Mauro Fiorentini 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2022/1
Amber is a fossilized plant resin found in many areas of the world, such as the Baltic Sea coastline, in Central-and South America and, more rarely, in southern Italy. The following work aims to introduce the reader to some experiments carried out on raw Baltic amber cores, using different techniques and tools with the purpose of verifying how effective these tools can be, and any reaction of the amber...