The Pitch Tar Mill – the material memory of specialized production site in the town of Oulu, Northern Finland
Author(s): Marika Hyttinen; Timo Ylimaunu; Titta Kallio-Seppä; Paul R. Mullins
Year: 2015
Summary
The town of Oulu, northern Finland, had one of the northernmost pitch tar mills in global scale. Thousands of barrels of tar were cooked into a pitch tar in the island of Pikisaari annually during the 18th and 19th centuries. The island has been specialized production site for pitch tar and ship building during the 17th and 19th centuries and metal industry at 20th century. Thus, the pitch was not the only product of the mill area. There have been found artifacts, like tools and stone ware and glass bottles, which indicate side products of the pitch tar cooking and that there was some workshop in the mill area. In our presentation will be discussed production of different kind of commodities and how the pitch tar mill was connected into the global economic networks.
Cite this Record
The Pitch Tar Mill – the material memory of specialized production site in the town of Oulu, Northern Finland. Marika Hyttinen, Timo Ylimaunu, Titta Kallio-Seppä, Paul R. Mullins. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Seattle, Washington. 2015 ( tDAR id: 433850)
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Keywords
General
Economy
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Material memory
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pitch tar
Geographic Keywords
Finland
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
17th - 19th centuries
Spatial Coverage
min long: 19.648; min lat: 59.807 ; max long: 31.582; max lat: 70.089 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 237