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Volunteer Archaeological Update - March 2006The main work for this month was dedicated to the Dacian Falx project, working with the Cultural Association Hieronymus, and to the translation for The Cultural Association Sarmizegetusa. We received tiles that were discovered last year in an archaeological site in a monastery in the west of Romania, near Arad. They were in not in bad condition and our plan was to try to reconstruct them and take pictures of them. Unfortunately the pieces didn't fit very well one with another, so the reconstruction didn't go that well even after a full week working on them. The next step will be to take a picture and draw them and to work with them on the computer. The pictures and the tiles will be given to the Cultural Association Hieronymus. The tiles will be given to the museum and the pictures and the drawings will be included in the folder of the archaeology site. We made a field trip to Cluj-Napoca in connection with the Dacian Falx project. We also visited some museums and we meet what is probably the prototype of the crazy scientist from the movies. He was trying to use mummy dust which was considered in the old time the universal cure. The second trip of the month was to Alba Iulia from where we came with a lot of information about the Dacian Falx: pictures and with measurement of the Falx from National History Museum of Transylvania, including new documentation about the weapon, a scale one-to-one drawing of the weapon. We also had discussion about the way that the weapon was used and the way in which it has to be built. Apparently the Dacian Falx from Cluj is curved on two scales and not only on one of them. The way that it is can suggest that the weapon was used with the right hand. We also met the person who will do the drawing for this project who is also a passionate in the area of medieval weaponry. He gives some suggestion for us regarding the building of the weapon and the way in which it was used in battles. For this project we need to start translating the documentation into English and German. We heard that Nottingham University is interested in the Dacian Falx project so we sent them an email to see exactly what is their interest. We also finished the translation for the Cultural Association Sarmizegetusa website. It was done in English and German and it will be put on line at the beginning of the April. Spring has come and hopefully we will have no snow in April. The first digging is starting near Brasov in Codlea at a mediaeval fortification and we will start there on 3rd of March. George Andrei CIOTLAUSI Archaeology Assistant for Project Abroad Romania Projects Abroad Archaeology Centre Romania 5th April 2006 Back to Volunteer Archaeological Monthly Update Files |
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