By Alex Wilson and Hope Yu Introduction For our sixth lab of the term, we constructed a funeral pyre to test medieval practices of cremation while also firing our early medieval English clay pots from lab three. This lab tended toward the experimental as much of Professor Mason’s research revolves around Anglo-Saxon medieval cremation and…
This week we fired the clay pots we made in Week 3. My group, Group E, fired our pots together with Group F. We measured the data for three pots: Hope’s pot, Elek’s pot, and Gisele’s pot – in other words, one from each group (Hope’s and Elek’s from E and F, respectively) and one…
Overview: For this week’s lab, my group (Group C) was working with Group D to build the cremation pyre in the center of the island. Additionally, we fired our 6 pots in order to test how well they would survive based on the tempers that were used to create them, in a callback to the…
This week in the lab, my group fired the pots we made in week 3. Our firing took place in a metal fire pit about two feet in diameter. We began by warming the pots around a small teepee fire in the center of our pit to raise the temperature to 230 degrees Celsius. This…