Thst sounds like a tempting invitation, but my time machine's waiting on a part. So, I can't wait to see what amazing footage you capture and the conclusions. 🍀
Great experiment! I once read about the Spanish conquest of the Inka, and at one point (hopefully not misremembering this after 20 years) the Spanish had captured Qosqo (Cusco), the capital, and were besieged by Inka forces who tried to retake it. The Inka soldiers were typically equiped with slings (plus a halberd, spear, or mace for melee) and for the seige they heated the sling stones in some way-- perhaps covered with pitch-covered cloth and set aflame, I can't quite recall-- and flung their stones onto the thatch roofs of the city to set it ablaze. I was always interested to know if that was even possible!
Sod would begin to crack, maybe. Sort of a kiln, sod would sure hold the heat or store it, unlike the metal container. But the board would act more like sod. "Fire brick"
wait, hold up, I was there just last weekend! we went on a trip and visited and watched them do the fire test thing strange to think that I am watching this when you are so close by right then haha
Okay, is it just me, this make perfect sense and sounds like a fun activity for a summer weekend. Yes, always safety first. Is this part of someone's PhD?
Do we have surviving viking age houses from iceland, or have archeologists inferred the architecture from holes in the ground? How much did the architecture change during the middle ages?
In places like Iceland, with notoriously little wood, architecture has been slower to develop. So it is a combination of historic accounts, archaeology, and houses that aren't from the Viking Age but seem to have few innovations compared to what they theorize about Viking Age architecture. Fun fact, the remnants of postholes and foundations from buildings no longer standing is called a "feature". Turns out when they say they found "features of a homestead" or "features of a settlement", they aren't saying "we have found vague evidence of a site" they are saying "we have found the architectural skeleton of of a site"
