'Evidence of Absence' - Erosion of Furnce walls

Group of aging furnaces at Wareham

Evidence of Absence
Erosion of Bloomery Furnaces

This report is an overview of an ongoing process of observing a number of clay built furnaces as they weather over time, started in 2004 and added to over the years.
This includes some observations that relate back to the continuing experimental series based on the Viking Age furnaces excavated at Hals, Iceland. : Prepared May 2021

Continue to : Evidence of Absence

This commentary is part of the ongoing work related to the Hals / Iceland experimental series. All that background to the current full scale replica build and test smelt set for June 19 at Wareham.

 
Note to Readers : The 'improvements' made to Blogger (to 'Idiot Proof' submissions) have made any attempt to correctly format complex 'table' contents EXTREMELY frustrating (to anyone who actually knows HTML)! 

After well over four hours attempting to lay out the table of data and images as a blog post, I gave up entirely and moved over to an addition to my primary research web site.