Dark Company Blog

DARC is composed of people interested in using experimental archaeology and living history to research aspects of life in Northern Europe during the Viking Age. The company further strives to provide a resource of skilled and experienced historic interpreters and physical demonstrators to museums, schools, and educational programs.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

October Bead Experiments

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On a miserable rainy weekend in Mid October the bead folks got together to run more furnaces to collect additional temperatures and make mor...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Bill Short on Norse Weapons & Combat

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Our readers will be interested in this note from Bill Short , researcher, author and fellow Viking Age re-enactor. Bill is associated with...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

More Bead Experiments

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On Sept 10th the bead folks met again to make some beads and continue our research into the construction and use of the viking era furnaces....
Saturday, October 29, 2011

DARC at CanIRON 8 - with images!

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This is my version of the smelt report: Go to the main Wareham Iron Smelting web site: DARC at CanIRON 8 (Image above by David Dac...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Measuring the HEAT...

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Iron Smelting Furnace Temperatures Short Shaft over Slag Pit October 9, 2011 / DARC Smelt Team, Neil Peterson recording On our last smelt, w...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Thanksgiving Smelt - fast overview

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'Celtic Iron Age' slag pit furnace October 9, 2011 DARC smelt team (Darrell / Neil / Marcus) Showing the initial layout of the '...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Thanksgiving IRON SMELT at Wareham

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One of the traditional iron smelt events at Wareham is over Thanksgiving weekend. This is 'Darrell's Smelt' (originally a sad r...
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