28th July 2011, 09:24 PM
Hey, what's with all these people calling my site pretty? Are you trying to seduce her? She's mine I tells ye, all mine!
But thanks
Yeah the smoke house idea might make sense, and we are indeed very close to the sea. I'm still concerned about the apparent temperature of the fire though, but perhaps its more a low smoldering heat that slowly burnt the soil than a quick roaring one...
Anybody ever dug up an actual smoke house, or seen one in action? We have them round here too, but they aren't in use anymore. What sort of fire do they use (a smokey one I guess
) but are they covered over like with a charcoal clamp or use a special extra smokey fuel or anything that might be diagnostic we could look for.
On a related note Is there any process by which you can tell the temperatures achieved in a fire? Other than sort of meting points of associated artefacts that sort of thing? Had to back fill today but about one third of the hearth deposits were left in situ in case there was a reason to go back...
Beads were one small white one, a slightly larger white one, both opaque and a translucent(ish) dark blue one. They are small ring shaped beads , not much more than a thin band of glass around a hole, diameters estimated at between 1cm and 0.5cm and we only have half of each bead. I'll try and get some pics of those posted over the weekend.
Thanks for all the suggestions/advice
But thanks
Yeah the smoke house idea might make sense, and we are indeed very close to the sea. I'm still concerned about the apparent temperature of the fire though, but perhaps its more a low smoldering heat that slowly burnt the soil than a quick roaring one...
Anybody ever dug up an actual smoke house, or seen one in action? We have them round here too, but they aren't in use anymore. What sort of fire do they use (a smokey one I guess
) but are they covered over like with a charcoal clamp or use a special extra smokey fuel or anything that might be diagnostic we could look for. On a related note Is there any process by which you can tell the temperatures achieved in a fire? Other than sort of meting points of associated artefacts that sort of thing? Had to back fill today but about one third of the hearth deposits were left in situ in case there was a reason to go back...
Beads were one small white one, a slightly larger white one, both opaque and a translucent(ish) dark blue one. They are small ring shaped beads , not much more than a thin band of glass around a hole, diameters estimated at between 1cm and 0.5cm and we only have half of each bead. I'll try and get some pics of those posted over the weekend.
Thanks for all the suggestions/advice