29th July 2011, 05:04 PM
i kinda like the bead made from quartz idea - you would need a furnace to super-heat the quartz even in a presumbly small crucible. plenty of fuel, plenty of oxygen - does your door/vent open to the sea breeze?
somewhere in the back of my mind i have a memory of somebody testing heat-cracked (quartzite) pebbles to determine what temperature was reached but my memory is in rapid decline
i can see nothing in what you have displayed to gainsay this but one would expext to see crucible fragments in the surrounding area
the trouble with excavating little (admittedly pretty) boxes like this is you miss the context in which it was used - any chance of stripping another 20-30m around the outside?
somewhere in the back of my mind i have a memory of somebody testing heat-cracked (quartzite) pebbles to determine what temperature was reached but my memory is in rapid decline
i can see nothing in what you have displayed to gainsay this but one would expext to see crucible fragments in the surrounding area
the trouble with excavating little (admittedly pretty) boxes like this is you miss the context in which it was used - any chance of stripping another 20-30m around the outside?
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers