Week 9 Lab Journal, Spring 2024: Turf Building
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Lab Summary Week 9: Turf Building
By Evan Orjala and Max Serota Introduction Early Icelandic Viking settlers encountered an environment that lacked the materials traditionally used for housing in their native Scandinavia; Iceland’s relatively young landscape lacked large forests with wood with which to build the walls and roofs of permanent shelters, nor was its volcanic rock suitable for building sturdy…
Week 9 Data: Group B
For this week’s lab, we set out to make a structure out of turf, one which would be large enough to hold up our tent we made in week 8 and one that could act as benches upon which we could sit on inside of the tent. The purpose of this activity was to replicate…
Week 9: Turf Building Data Group E
This week we did turf building, or creating some walls for our tent using sections of turf. My group was in charge of making milk-pen blocks of turn, which were rectangles that were supposed to be about 6 inches wide by 12 inches long and about three inches deep. Cutting out the first block was…
Week 9 Lab Journal
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Week 9: Turf Building
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Booth-Building and Turf Construction
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Week 9 Lab Journal: A Turf Building Extravaganza!
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Week 9, Group B: Measurement
We started at the mini bald spot. 3-4 groups gathered on the mini-bald spot to create a road, and the others collected on the midi-bald spot. Each aimed to measure a centuriate from there. It took a while for our group to begin, mainly because there was a great debate about the perfect place to…
Surveying data: Lab group C
This week we built and attempted to use basic Roman surveying equipment. The groma, pictured above, has four arms arranged in a cross with weights hanging down from their ends, and from the center. By lining up three cords with a distant point (as Soren and Ruby are doing here), you can guarantee points in…
