Experimental Archaeology
Killing the Cauldron: Experimental Research on Dented Bronze Cauldrons from the (post)Medieval Period
Experimental Roman Minting: Casting Silver-Copper Alloys into a Bronze Mould
***This paper provides the details of a Roman minting experiment, which used a bronze mould to cast debased silver blanks typical of the third century A.D. The investigation follows the paper ''Experiments reproducing Roman debased alloys" (George, 2020) which studied the manufacturing methods used...
Standardized Reporting of Experimental Iron Smelting - A modest (?) Proposal
Background: The State of an Art?
Over the last three decades, bloomery iron smelting has moved from the largely theoretical to the practical. Although there were certainly earlier attempts via experimental process to build workable furnaces, most of these attempts were basically unsuccessful, at least in terms of actual iron production. Early researchers too often undertook (or at least only formally reported on) limited test series (one or two attempts) and many concentrated far too much on slag, not on the production of metallic iron itself.
Oakbank Dog Rose: A Working-model of an Iron Age Wooden Whistle from a Loch Tay Crannog
A Spark of Inspiration: Experimentally Testing Manganese Dioxide as a Fire Lighting Aide
Alternative Reconstruction of a First Century AD Roman Cavalry Saddle
Background
The design and the construction of the Roman saddle has not received much academic attention since the work done by Peter Connolly in 1986 (Connolly, 1986, p. 353) and Connolly with Carol von Driel in 1991 (Connolly, P, van Driel-Murray, C, 1991, pp. 33-50) .
Irish Copper Axe-Ingots Recovered in Brittany: Experimental Casting to Recreate Porous Material
What was *platъ and how Did it Work? Reconstructing a Piece of Slavic Cloth Currency
Introduction
There is rare but clear evidence that at least some early medieval Slavic communities used pieces of textile during the exchange of goods. The written sources (transcription of the notes of Ibrahim Ibn Yaʻqūb and a short notice made by Helmold of Bosau nearly two hundred years later) entitle us to believe that it was some kind of currency and not a local predominant commodity.