Hammered Out Bits

Darrell Markewitz is a professional blacksmith who specializes in the Viking Age. He designed the living History program for L'Anse aux Meadows NHSC (Parks Canada) and worked on a number of major international exhibits. A recent passion is experimental iron smelting. 'Hammered Out Bits' focuses primarily on IRON and the VIKING AGE

Friday, December 29, 2023

Ticking... (10 lines)

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  You’ve slept too long in silence,” Mama said Remember Mama said "Crazy boy, you'll only wind up With strange notions in your head...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Contemporary (?) TV series...

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Some observations : On television productions - What works for me We don't get commercial TV here. Our internet connections generally to...
Friday, December 22, 2023

Caherconnell bloom forging 1

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Preliminary Report Yesterday I started compacting a bloom fragment recovered at the Caherconnell Furnace Festival in Ireland late August thi...
Saturday, December 09, 2023

A Review : 'Iron Smelting in Viking-age Iceland' by Short & Oskarson

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  Review : ‘Iron Smelting in Viking-age Iceland:
 a study based on experimental archaeology’ William R. Short and Reynir A. Óskarson https:/...
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