26th July 2011, 12:46 AM
Thanks Mpoole & Dinosaur
sorry, for random reasons I met the Irish PM today (An Taoiseach) which has involved me being slightly tippsy (hint-not so slightly) so shouldn't be replying now but....
Having read the thing BAJR sent on from EH we certainly don't have any of the 'blobs' or 'threads' of glass that says we should find in our sieved soil samples so maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. But that's why I put the question up here!
One thing that is weird about the site, as Mpoole alluded to, is the lack of space! There's barely one foot between the edge of that fire box and the edge of the wall. Now it sure does seem that that fire burnt with a fierce heat, I can't imagine anyone could have been within the building whilst that fire was lit. The funny thing about Irish sweat houses is that they burnt turf (peat) as far as I know, which in it's proper -straight out the bog form- gives off a very low level of heat allowing for a small enclosing building. This fire was burning timber (you should see the charcoal!) so would have been way too hot to stand that close to....
so....
what the hell is it?
sorry, for random reasons I met the Irish PM today (An Taoiseach) which has involved me being slightly tippsy (hint-not so slightly) so shouldn't be replying now but....
Having read the thing BAJR sent on from EH we certainly don't have any of the 'blobs' or 'threads' of glass that says we should find in our sieved soil samples so maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. But that's why I put the question up here!
One thing that is weird about the site, as Mpoole alluded to, is the lack of space! There's barely one foot between the edge of that fire box and the edge of the wall. Now it sure does seem that that fire burnt with a fierce heat, I can't imagine anyone could have been within the building whilst that fire was lit. The funny thing about Irish sweat houses is that they burnt turf (peat) as far as I know, which in it's proper -straight out the bog form- gives off a very low level of heat allowing for a small enclosing building. This fire was burning timber (you should see the charcoal!) so would have been way too hot to stand that close to....
so....
what the hell is it?