This week in lab, we built turf walls to combine with the previous week’s wood tent, to recreate a traditional Icelandic booth (“tjald-buo”). We constructed our turf from a few different styles of block or strip, and my group, D, made Glumbauer blocks to build one of the longer walls. These were a longer style…

This week, our data was definitely more qualitative than quantitative, as we experimented with forging nails and roves from mild steel and/or wrought iron. There was a lot of experimentation and trial and error involved in this process, but I was still able to gather some information on useful information on temperature, time, and the…