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Charcoal making experimentOver the weekend of 31 Jan-1 Feb 2010, we dug a pit that had similar dimensions to the ones found along Germany Beck, to see how these pits would work. We really wanted to know if they could have been producing charcoal in a few days. Nobody has made charcoal like this, so far as we could discover. Some people said it would take a week or more. The metal workers only had 5 days before they were driven away or killed after the battle of Stamford Bridge. We were able to start extracting charcoal within 12 hours of lighting the fire. So this system, which we know the Norse people were using in the 11th century, would have worked.
A short video showing the digging, building, lighting and management of the fire will be on UTube very soon.The BBC film was shown on Monday 15 February 2010 as part of the Inside Out show.
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