The Armour Archive

Those Crazy Swedes! *

http://www.frostheim.se/craft/pages.asp ... lbum_id=54

we have such cool artisans in Drachenwald...

*In the interests of Fairness I should point out that only one of them is a Crazy Swede. One is a Mad Finn and the other is a Looney Englishman, but they all live up by the Arctic circle...

Very nice and much larger than my runestone laurel scroll that my wife claims she will use as my headstone.

Cool stuff!

I cut this in two afternoons with no experience (I took a class). It's fun!


P1000398 by Derian le Breton, on Flickr


P1000396 by Derian le Breton, on Flickr


P1000400 by Derian le Breton, on Flickr

-Derian.

Here's some of mine...
https://picasaweb.google.com/1063570251 ... directlink

As an aside... I'd love to do this at an event. I'm hoping to pack along a stone to work on at Pennsic this year... we'll see how that goes though!

Derian le Breton wrote:Cool stuff!

I cut this in two afternoons with no experience (I took a class). It's fun!


P1000398 by Derian le Breton, on Flickr


P1000396 by Derian le Breton, on Flickr


P1000400 by Derian le Breton, on Flickr

-Derian.

It occurs to me that you could really screw with archaeologists by dropping those off in random wooded wastelands in tthe American north east.

Way ahead of you Eff.

Fairly easy to show that the weathering is not appropriate for the context. I remember a geology class at Cornell when we went to a local cemetery to see examples of nicely dated weathering of different rocks in local conditions. It was interesting to note the nasty black deposits and weathering of the carvings up until a date in the early 1900's after which they all looked almost new---turns out that that date was when natural gas arrived in town and coal furnaces were phased out.

Yeah, but still funny to think about.

The Pennsic Iron Smelters have discussed how the remains of the Y1K bloomeries could be misinterpreted---until someone found evidence of post WWII fallout in the slag or did carbon 14 studies on the charcoal.

You may not screw up an archeaologist but the local nutters or conspiracy theorists would be all over. Especially if you carve some with Templaar symobls and use some obscure futhark on it. Or mix and match different runes. Lol

Hell use the dwarven runes out of a DnD book.

Be sure to have people making all sorts of claims even though anyone with a brain could clearly see it wasn't old enough.

Effingham wrote:It occurs to me that you could really screw with archaeologists by dropping those off in random wooded wastelands in tthe American north east.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake%27s_Plate_of_Brass

There ya go!

Hmmm what's old Norse for "Go West till you find"--and then put in the Heavner Rune stone symbols...

Nutters never admit defeat. We ran across one telling us that he had proof of iron smelting in a location and time not generally accepted as having had it. His proof did not look like any iron smelting remains we had ever seen (and the people I was with had just presented on 10 years of bloomery experimentation!) but couldn't sway him!

Olaf, you know with the water so low on the Raquette, you should have gong out below the dams and carved in to the exposed rock.

I looked on the site and admired the work, but I wonder what the inscription reads. I didn't see a translation or interpretation anywhere . . .

I seam to rember a rune stone being cut the last few years at pennsic,
On a further note it seams they could have cut down the time a bit with more sharp chisels.

If they do this again a good camera with time laps would be wonderful.

Lovely work, Derian! What kind of stone did you use?

Gaston de Clermont wrote:Lovely work, Derian! What kind of stone did you use?

Thanks! It's Tenino sandstone from Washington.

-Derian.

Damn. Now I'm getting the bug for yet another craft to take up my time, money and space.