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…
By Elie Lewin, Hazel Wright, Shemsy Lewis-Mussa Introduction This week, we built the foundation and support structure for a mortuary house. Austin has theories about the way mortuary houses would have been constructed, and this lab was designed to test a few of those theories. The archaeological evidence provided was a rectangular house foundation with…