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- Thu Mar 16, 2023 11:03 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Video about tools in the Met armour shop
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- Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:13 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Washers, roves, and bagel washers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1742
Re: Washers, roves, and bagel washers
I don’t think that there is any way to tell for sure what’s going on with that mount. The colour is typical Thames mud patina. The mount looks as if it needs another rivet, so the accidental punch-out makes sense. It’s odd that the roping doesn’t continue to the second sections, when the raised line...
- Sat Mar 26, 2022 3:44 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Washers, roves, and bagel washers
- Replies: 7
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Re: Washers, roves, and bagel washers
The ones I can measure look to be of a similar thickness to their mounts. I can't tell with the bagel washer. Using the off-cuts and scrap seems like a good idea. It's what I do. I, too, wind up with a few that have part of the edge missing, but my customers don't get those. The medieval craftsmen s...
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 6:23 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Washers, roves, and bagel washers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1742
Re: Washers, roves, and bagel washers
I have two that are bagels. They are both part of small, well made mounts. 7161 has a definite cutout from another washer, near the 7, and a probably cutout between the 6 and the 1. The latter is more obvious in the photo. 10523 still has some leather beneath the washer. Part of the washer seems to ...
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 6:12 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Washers, roves, and bagel washers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1742
Re: Washers, roves, and bagel washers
Some are a bit dished. This one seems to have bevelled edges.
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 6:10 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Washers, roves, and bagel washers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1742
Re: Washers, roves, and bagel washers
Most of them are flat.
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 6:05 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Washers, roves, and bagel washers
- Replies: 7
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Washers, roves, and bagel washers
I don't have any armour washers in my collection, but I do have a few on belt hardware. Almost all of them are on sheet metal belt mounts. One is on a (probable) folding clasp part, one is on a buckle plate, and one is on a modified sheet metal belt mount.
- Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:55 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Cobbling Time
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3123
Re: Cobbling Time
I don’t think you’ll need a last to repair the seam. The leather is already stretched to shape. You’ll just have to use the right stitch.
- Fri Nov 19, 2021 7:09 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 1042273
Re: Mac's blog
Gold makes everything better:)
- Thu Nov 18, 2021 3:34 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 1042273
Re: Mac's blog
What’s the weight of all of those rivets?
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 2:41 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 1042273
Re: Mac's blog
That looks pretty close, especially in the picture that is a closer match to the angle of the black and white photo.
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 2:08 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 1042273
Re: Mac's blog
The roping is obscured by the plain mount rim.
The hole is 6mm, and the central dome of the roped mount is 7mm, measured on the back.
The hole is 6mm, and the central dome of the roped mount is 7mm, measured on the back.
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 11:35 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 1042273
Re: Mac's blog
I think that 5934 is a waster. I don’t know if it is for two different mounts or one- the hole isn’t quite the same size as the domed section of the remaining mount.
- Tue Jun 29, 2021 8:26 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Mac's blog
- Replies: 1141
- Views: 1042273
Re: Mac's blog
These might be of some interest. They are Thames finds, with a typical river patina. See also Dress Accessories 935 and 936. As usual, I can take more photos if they are needed.
- Thu May 27, 2021 6:45 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Looking for sources for Merovingian soft kit and bling
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2267
Re: Looking for sources for Merovingian soft kit and bling
I misunderstood your post. I didn’t realize that you wanted research sources, rather than stuff sources:) I’d start with Gale Owen-Crocker’s “Dress in Anglo-Saxon England”. It references quite a bit of continental material. I think you’re going to have to look at a fair amount of dig reports. There ...
- Wed May 19, 2021 6:43 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Looking for sources for Merovingian soft kit and bling
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2267
Re: Looking for sources for Merovingian soft kit and bling
Is this blingy enough? It’s a Merovingian garnet cloisonné disk brooch, made by my .5 apprentice equivalent, as her first piece of jewellery, based on ne in the British Museum. The garnets were heat-shattered (Arrhenius theory), and then ground and polished by hand using the methods suggested by Mav...
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:35 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
Here are the round tabs.
The outside of the plain half appears to be coppery in the centre, with magnetic material surrounding it. The decorated outside is magnetic.
The insides of both rounded tabs are magnetic, but not very strong.
The outside of the plain half appears to be coppery in the centre, with magnetic material surrounding it. The decorated outside is magnetic.
The insides of both rounded tabs are magnetic, but not very strong.
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:30 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
More photos, and some re-examination. Now I'm more confused. Here is the outside and inside of the squared off tabs. The chiselled-off pin on the outside of the back is very coppery, and non-magnetic. The outside of the matching tab (decorated half) attracts a magnet. The inside of the decorated hal...
- Sun Nov 15, 2020 10:00 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
There are remains of [alignment] pins on both sets of handles.
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 8:12 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
I made a mould of a wax from this, so you can see what it made. Suggestions welcomed on dating.
It looks vaguely like an umbonate brooch, but much larger than any I've seen.
It looks vaguely like an umbonate brooch, but much larger than any I've seen.
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 8:11 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
I bought this years ago, sold to me as Roman, but I've always had my doubts on the dating. Mac's post above prompted me to get it out and photograph it. Note that the gripping handles are rounded on one side, and straight on the other. The mould seems to be designed to keep the wall thickness the sa...
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 7:53 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Lorica Segmentata find in Germany
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1758
Re: Lorica Segmentata find in Germany
Roland’s Patreon link includes a painting of what the original might have looked like, based on photos and the ct scans.
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 9:12 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Lorica Segmentata find in Germany
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1758
Re: Lorica Segmentata find in Germany
From Roland W’s fb page: Brand new documentary on the Roman body armour discovered at Kalkriese, the probable site of the Varus battle in 9 AD: https://youtu.be/Pagbmw0Ec50 The discovery was made during the 2018 excavation campaign. Even if you do not understand German, you will get great insights i...
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 2:05 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
Wax is very unlikely as a medieval mould material. It was just too expensive. Wax masters seem to have been reserved for smaller, higher-status things. Theophilus talks about using tallow for lost [wax] casting of bells. Plaster or clay seem reasonable. For clay piece moulds, dung or cloth clippings...
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:41 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
Many inventories were done room by room, so all of the tools will be together, all of the kitchen stuff together, etc..
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 5:34 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
In book 7, chapter 9 of the Pirotechnia, Biringuccio discusses bronze and iron moulds for casting cannonballs.
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 6:37 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
In the description of the matrix mould, Justine Bailey says: The important thing with casting metal in metal moulds is to ensure that there is no adhesion between the casting and the mould, and metal vapour from the melt could not be absorbed - as it can be in ceramic moulds. As I would expect, the ...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 10:50 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
Yes, I think it would work. The Bronze Age moulds are for axes, and most of the Roman ones are for fibulae. Both of these would have been copper alloy products.
The matrix mould looks to produce high quality seal matrices. All of those that I’ve seen are copper alloy, not pewter.
The matrix mould looks to produce high quality seal matrices. All of those that I’ve seen are copper alloy, not pewter.
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 9:01 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
I’m pretty sure that the mould was for copper alloy matrices. There are five lead alloy matrices in the database, and over two hundred copper alloy ones. The lead alloy ones are a different shape, too.
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:48 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/973539 https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/826910 https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/760336 https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/740485 https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/662163 Tinned?! https:...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:12 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
I’ve tried wax in a stone mould, too. Nope. That matrix mould looks like it makes a very typical 14C Copper alloy matrix. The database only has 23 coper alloy moulds. Most of them are Bronze Age and Roman. https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/q/Mould/show/100/thumbnail/1/materialTerm/Copper+...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 2:28 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 81377
Re: Pewter stuff...
There are a few copper alloy moulds in the PAS database, but none for spoons:(
https://finds.org.uk/database/search/re ... Type/MOULD
https://finds.org.uk/database/search/re ... Type/MOULD
- Fri May 08, 2020 9:32 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Question about horse "parking" in the early Middle Ages
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4550
Re: Question about horse "parking" in the early Middle Ages
And these are both worth reading:
https://www.librarything.com/work/1383082/book/24099735
The Restoration of the Monastery of Saint Martin of Tournai
It’s a lot more interesting than the title suggests.
History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours
The first is a bit late, and the second a bit early.
https://www.librarything.com/work/1383082/book/24099735
The Restoration of the Monastery of Saint Martin of Tournai
It’s a lot more interesting than the title suggests.
History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours
The first is a bit late, and the second a bit early.
- Fri May 08, 2020 8:33 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Question about horse "parking" in the early Middle Ages
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4550
- Thu Apr 23, 2020 8:14 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Which rivets do you use for armouring?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 7150
Re: Which rivets do you use for armouring?
Shipping is slow at the moment.
I’m sure you can figure out why.
I’m sure you can figure out why.