By Jacob Sanders, Parker Johnson Introduction Last week, we built the timber frame of our Anglo-Saxon mortuary house. In this week’s lab, we finished construction by adding walls and a roof. Our overall goal was to experimentally reconstruct a four-post mortuary house, based on the outline of post holes discovered around cremation deposits at Apple…

Introduction This lab was focused on the process of making iron ship-nails and roves in the historical Anglo-Saxon tradition. Blacksmithing, in some form or another, has been used for millennia to shape raw metal into useful tools. In the viking age, a common use for blacksmithing was the creation of clench nails and roves. These…