thelonious
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Article on vitrified forts
Jun 09, 2018, 20:32
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VItrified forts are ace.
Article - Local geology controlled the feasibility of vitrifying Iron Age buildings (No mention of dragons though which is a little disappointing)
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep40028
Sorry if this has been posted before.
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Monganaut
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Edited Jun 11, 2018, 07:32
Re: Article on vitrified forts
Jun 11, 2018, 07:18
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Thanks fer that, funnily enough, I was thinking abut these forts the other day. I first became aware of them as a nipper cos of the Arthur C Carke prog 'Mysterious World...In fact, here's the short vid.....
Vitrified Scottish Forts from "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World" (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUb5212SCls
There's a brief overview similar, though less techy than the Nature article here....https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160303-archaeology-history-forts-vitrification/
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thelonious
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Re: Article on vitrified forts
Jun 11, 2018, 18:55
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Thanks for those two links.
It's hard to believe there isn't a definitive answer to the why and how by now.
I love a good mystery.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Article on vitrified forts
Jun 11, 2018, 20:07
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Visited a rare English vitrified fort the other week, although probably the result of either accident or attack: http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1819/castle_hill_huddersfield.html
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Monganaut
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Re: Article on vitrified forts
Jun 11, 2018, 22:29
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The article Theolonius put a link to mentions testing the Darly Dale sedimentary rock (which I believe castle Hill is made of). Some thinking in the article is that the vitrification wasn't to do with the rock itself, but more to do with the 'mortar' used between stones becoming vitrified. Not sure I was aware of any evidence of the stones being mortared into place, but you never now.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Article on vitrified forts
Jun 12, 2018, 20:07
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Interesting stuff, I've always thought any stone walls were drystone construction but not based on any particular knowledge just a (probably incorrect) assumption.
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