Week 7- Blacksmithing
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(Group A) Lab Journal #7: Blacksmithing
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Week 6 Lab Summary: Cremation and Pottery Firing
By Sam Much, Jacob Forster Rothbart, Patrick Assali “Before setting forth on that inevitable journey, none is wiser than the man who considers—before his soul departs hence—what good or evil he has done, and what judgement his soul will receive after its passing.” Bede’s Death Song, translated by Leo Shirley-Price, our farewell to Two Sixteen…
Week 6 Data Collection (Firing) – Group E
Group E and Group F worked on the same fire. Time of Day Time Pot Temp (celcius) Notes 1:37 0:00 20.5 Fire started, pots unwarmed 1: 47 0:10 817363 Arb clay potReg clay potLoom weight 1:57 0:20 637244 2:07 0:30 659766 2:17 0:40 8487138 Moved pots closer, broke one data tablet 2:27 0:50 97150151 2:37…
Week 6 Lab Data Austin: Cremation Body Weight
This report tracks the weight of Two Sixteen’s body before during and after cremation. The mineral component after cremation (the ‘cremains’) has been shown to represent only 5.7 per cent of initial bodyweight for an adult human (McKinley 1994). Our final weight was roughly 3%, likely doing to incomplete retrieval as a result of having…
Week 6 Lab Data: Groups A+B
Group A Data Recorder: Jacob S.; Group B Data Recorder: Ugo A. The chart below tracks the temperatures of two pots during our attempt to fire them around a smaller fire some distance from the funeral pyre. Pot #1 was made by Jacob as part of Group D, while Pot #2 was an arb-clay pot…
Week 6 Lab Data: Cremation (Group D)
The following table records the temperature of the same pot every 10 minutes as it was fired on the funeral pyre. We used a laser temperature gun to take measurements. At first this was really uncomfortable because of the heat of the fire, so Sasha took our group’s reading at the same time as those…
Cremation Data – (Group C, Week 6)
Fire Started: 2:50pm Time Time Elapsed (hh:mm:ss) Body Temp (Celsius) Notes 3:00pm 00:10:00 744 C Surface of the body has blackened. 3:10pm 00:10:00 785 C Visible Boiling. Tipi has collapsed fully. Black, head, and tail of 216 is exposed. 3:20pm 00:10:00 695 C Body almost entirely exposes. Upper portion of skull clean and exposed. 3:30pm…
Lab journal week 6: cremation and firing
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Group F Lab Data, Week 6: Cremation
Group E and F worked on the same fire. It was originally intended to be smothered with greenery, but given the current time of year we were unable to do so. Therefore, we didn’t smother it with anything, and just let it burn unsmothered. Groups A and B smothered their fire with turf, so I…
