There was not much data to record, but here’s what I got: Small-diameter wood gathered: 41 (For weaving of wall) Medium-diameter wood gathered: 5 (For vertical structure of woven wall) Time to gather wood with 4 people: 1 hour Time to strip wood: 20 min Time to carve stake points: 15 min Time to construct…
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…
This week Group B worked on a wattle and daub panel for one of the long sides of the house. It took about an hour to gather and strip the materials to build it, and since we were in an area with somewhat slim pickings for willow, we ended up with a few ash saplings…