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originally posted by: EartOccupant
a reply to: Marduk
Its fair to add that a few people tried to replicate the technique/theorie and failed s well.
The experimental wall was 6 ft. wide and 6 ft. high, with horizontal timbers interlaced with stone slabs. After ignition through brushwood fires around the wall face, the wall began to burn and after three hours it collapsed. The core of basalt rubble became red hot, probably reaching 800 to 1200°C, and after excavation the bottom part of the rubble was found to be vitrified, with rock droplets and casts of timber preserved. The experiment proved that a timber-laced wall of this character could become vitrified through fire, but the explanation of the reasons for such widespread treatment of these Iron Age forts remains uncertain.
originally posted by: EartOccupant
a reply to: Marduk
Yup i know of those experiments, there was one recently on YouTube.. a two day fire... still the results where nihil.
People have tried this a couple of times...
It makes no sense on the amount of resources needed compared to the result.
In other words:
Unexplained.
originally posted by: T0rMenT0R
a reply to: Spider879
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originally posted by: EartOccupant
a reply to: Marduk
Why ? , I did not talk about the why.
Nice cheap shot Sir.
I talked about HOW
I only talked about the fact that the replications were not easy and not very successful.
"in other words unexplained",