Class posing in front of mortuary house

Weeks 9&10 Lab Summary: Mortuary House

Astrid Malter, David Bellovin, Ellen Schlick Introduction Over the past week, the class has been working on our final lab: building a mortuary house from natural materials. Although this lab can stand alone as a unit, we would not have been able to accomplish the build without what we had learned in previous weeks. For…

Weeks 9-10 Group D Lab Data: Construction

The construction of our Anglo-Saxon mortuary house spanned four days, from Wednesday May 26th to Wednesday June 2nd, with construction occurring on Wednesday, Friday, Monday, and then again on Wednesday to finish up. The Weather Gods cancelled our Thursday lab, so this was how we made up for it.  Day 1 – May 26th On…

Group A Data Report – Week 9/10

For our final lab, we constructed an Anglo-Saxon mortuary house. Unfortunately, the weather gods abandoned us in our time of need––our scheduled lab was rained out, and as a result, we had to divide the process into four ~1 hour long blocks. Block One – Wednesday, May 26th Instructions: go into Lower Arb and collect…