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This also seems like significantly more work than using mud as mortar. Just providing fuel for the fires to sustain this heat feels like it would be too costly to make this a routine procedure.

>The expert consensus explains vitrified forts as the product of deliberate destruction either following the capture of the site by an enemy force or by the occupants at the end of its active life as an act of ritual closure.[6] The process has no chronological significance and is found during both Iron Age and early medieval forts in Scotland.




It seems almost impossible to get and keep a wall at 1000 C for several hours using primitive technology.

The only way I can imagine is building a clay/mud oven around the entire wall and then having people pump massive bellows for an entire day.




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