Experimental Firing of Combined Furnace Charge in the Lime Kiln at Stará Huť Near Adamov on the Example of Four Types of Building Materials
Petr Kos, Petr Holub, Peter Majoroš
Archeologia technica, vol. 33 (2022)
Pages: 49–56
Language: Czech
Type of article: scientific article
DOI: n/a
Abstract:
It is historically documented that following minor technical modifications, medieval lime kilns were also able to produce bricks. At the same time, however, it was possible to burn both building materials at the same time in the same plant. In 2020, an experimental kiln was used to test this theory, located in the experimental village of the Technical Museum in Brno at Stará huť near Adamov, district Blansko. For the experiment, Vilémovice limestone type from the Mokrá Quarry, crystalline limestone from the Municipal Quarry in Bystřice pod Perštejnem, and Slivenec limestone type from the Cikánka Quarry in Radotín and dried soil bricks from Mikulov in the Břeclav region were used. The volume of the total furnace charge was about 1.5 m3 and the firing time was 38 hours. It was the first experiment of its kind within the Stará huť near Adamov complex.