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What is Experimental Archaeology?
Where a scientific method is applied to a historical question relating to an artefact or to answer a question.
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What is Experiential Archaeology?
Something you can interact with. Where people are experiencing the process or making of something.
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What tool is this and what is it used for?
What tool is this and what is it used for?
Compass, for drawing circles
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What tool is this and what is it used for?
What tool is this and what is it used for?
Saw, cutting wood planks
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What tool is this and what is it used for?
What tool is this and what is it used for?
Adze, to take thin chips off Timber or Boards
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What tool is this and what is it used for?
What tool is this and what is it used for?
Line and chalk, mark out the lines you need to cut out
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What tool is this and what is it used for?
What tool is this and what is it used for?
Piercer (persore), for drilling
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What tool is this and what is it used for?
What tool is this and what is it used for?
Plane, smooth surfaces, square up the ends of boards and shave edges
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What tool is this and what is it used for?
What tool is this and what is it used for?
Broad Ax, debarking a log
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What tool is this and what is it used for?
What tool is this and what is it used for?
Gouge, carve grooves into the wood.
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Which kind of chainmail is this?
Which kind of chainmail is this?
Butted Maille
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Which kind of chainmail is this?
Which kind of chainmail is this?
Riveted Maille
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What is the Process of making riveted chainmail?
What is the Process of making riveted chainmail?
1. Coil a wire into a spiral
2. Cut rings off the spiral
3. Make the metal soft by heating them until they're red hot
4. Flatten the rings with a hammer until overlapping areas are flat
5. Heat the rings to red hot again to make them soft again and let them cool slowly
6. Punch a hole in the overlapping area of the rivet
7. Cut the rivets (cut off tiny pieces of wire)
8. Set the rivets. Set a rivet into the rivet hole. Align it to the centre. Squeeze the rivet with pliers.
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Why is the castle built in a quarry?
Because it has all the resources they need for things like colouring, wood etc.
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How are stones broken up to be used?
Hammer and wedge. You hit the wedge with the hammer to get a fracture and eventually split.
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What is the piff?
High-iron content sandstone
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What is the paff?
Reddish Sandstone
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What is the poof?
Soft, yellow sandstone
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Describe the purpose of making the grain ark.
Split log, cut the planks, smooth sides with axe, they shape it then use pegs to hold it together
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What is mortar, how is it made, and what's in it?
Mortar is what is used to stick the stones together to give the castle structure. It is made by mixing limestone heated to 900C and mixing it with water
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What does the blacksmith do to fix the tools?
They heat it to soften them (1000C), he sharpens it with a file and hardens it by heating it and quickly quenching it with water
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Why is the mortar strong and how long will it take to set completely?
Quarry sands make it stronger: It takes centuries to set
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How does a trebuchet work?
Like a catapult. Potential energy is stored
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What is a gambeson and how is it made?
A padded defensive jacket made of wool, worn as armour
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How does an arrow loop work?
A small window to shoot out the arrows; it would be harder for enemies to shoot back
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Describe how a crossbow is made
Made with Yew wood, it would be smooth
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How does forge welding work?
Heat up the metal till its white so it would be hot enough to become soft
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What did a 13th century soldier eat?
Their war horses, pottage, pork and beans
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What is heraldry?
Heraldry is the practice of devising, granting, displaying, describing and recording a coat of arms
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How did heraldry come to be?
It came to be because people needed to be easily identifiable on the field/battlefield. It is used to distinguish people of different families and social status.
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What is red?
What is red?
Gules
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What is blue?
What is blue?
Azure
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What is green?
What is green?
Vert
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What is purple?
What is purple?
Purpure
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What is black?
What is black?
Sable
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What is silver?
What is silver?
Argent
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What is gold?
What is gold?
Or
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What is the name of this fur?
What is the name of this fur?
Ermine
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What is the name of this fur?
What is the name of this fur?
Erminoise
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What is the name of this fur?
What is the name of this fur?
Contre-ermine (inverted ermine)
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What is the name of this fur?
What is the name of this fur?
Vair
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What is this line of partition called?
What is this line of partition called?
Per fess
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What is this line of partition called?
What is this line of partition called?
Per Bend
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What is this line of partition called?
What is this line of partition called?
Per chevron
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What is this line of partition called?
What is this line of partition called?
Per pale
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What is this line of partition called?
What is this line of partition called?
Per Saltire
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What is this line of partition called?
What is this line of partition called?
Quarterly
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Name this ordinary
Name this ordinary
Chief
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Name this ordinary
Name this ordinary
Saltire
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Name this ordinary
Name this ordinary
Cross
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Name this ordinary
Name this ordinary
Fess
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Name this ordinary
Name this ordinary
Pale
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Name this ordinary
Name this ordinary
Chevron
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Name this ordinary
Name this ordinary
Bordure
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Name this sub-ordinary
Name this sub-ordinary
Pairle/Pile
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What is this lion's pose called?
What is this lion's pose called?
Rampant
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What is this lion's pose called?
What is this lion's pose called?
Passant
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What is this lion's pose called?
What is this lion's pose called?
Guardant
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What is this lion's pose called?
What is this lion's pose called?
Reguardant
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What is in a full achievement of a peer?
Coat of arms, chapeau/helmet, supporters, compartment, crest, mantling, and motto
Coat of arms, chapeau/helmet, supporters, compartment, crest, mantling, and motto