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Roman Era

International Iron Smelting Days

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Country

  • the Netherlands

The annual Iron Smelting Days are the largest gathering of its kind in Europe, with blacksmiths, artists and archaeologists gathering around a dozen or so iron smelting furnaces.  It is a unique chance to learn a lot in very short time about the process of producing iron in the old days.

Wooden Matrices in Bracteate Production: An Experimental Approach

Author(s)
Magnus R. Aunevik-Berntsen 1 ✉
Publication Date
The literature on the production of Migration Period (c.400-550 AD) gold bracteates has suggested wood as a possible material to be used for the matrix on which bracteates are made, but only in the production of a single or very few bracteates. This study experiments with how such a matrix could have been made and what part of the wood could have been used. Additionally, it examines the quality changes in serial production...

An Experimental Exploration of the Earliest Soapmaking

Author(s)
Sally Pointer 1 ✉
Publication Date
Soap is a substance now taken for granted, but there is uncertainty, myth and misinformation about its development, and little scholarly attention has been paid to the likely circumstances surrounding its discovery. As part of a MSc in Experimental Archaeology, a project collated the earliest mentions of proto-soaps...

Interpret Europe Conference 2025

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Organised by
European Association for Heritage Interpretation

Country

  • Poland

Heroes, anti-heroes and villains: How we (re)create, use and dismantle them.

Join us between 11 and 14 April 2025 for the Interpret Europe conference entitled Heroes, anti-heroes and villains: How we (re)create, use and dismantle them.

Romans and Germans

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Country

  • Germany

If you don't have the opportunity to travel to Italy on vacation this year, you can experience a little of the atmosphere of ancient Rome in our Museum. The “Romans and Germans” action day on June 23rd invites you to take a playful journey through this time, which could also be very serious.