[SCA-AS] Re: [Fwd: Viking News]
rmhowe
mmagnusm at bellsouth.net
Wed Jul 19 08:34:22 CDT 2006
Tyghra na Tintagel wrote:
> Wow! The close up view of the woman's grave was fascinating! Interesting to
> see that she was wearing two knives. Thanks Magnus.
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> Tyghra
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>> http://www.arkeodok.com/femalegrave.html
Dan's CD-Roms and books and even some articles and books to download
for free are at http://www.arkeodok.com/
It is cheaper ordering the CDs through him than through Oxbowbooks.com
The book on the animal headed brooches can sometimes be found at
Ronnells.se. I suggest trying them for all the following books as the
university wasn't selling them the last time I looked at the pages
about a month ago. When I bought mine I encountered an entirely
too busy secretary that replied she'd get to me in time. About a couple
months later I got an email to arrange payment.
Carlsson, Anders: Djurhuvdformiga Spännen och Gotländsk Vikingatid.
Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 5. Stockholm 1983 . 210pp. Illus.
The book on Gotlandic animal-headed brooches.
(Animal-Head Brooches of Gotland's Viking Period) ISBN 9171463275,
7pp bibliography. Stockholm Universitet Institution för Arkeologi 106 91
Stockholm, Sweden. English Summary pp.127-35. Period covered by
these brooches is early eighth to mid twelfth century.
Some of the other books specializing in Viking and Roman stuff from the area
are in the AUN series. It took me a while but I eventually got them about six
or so years ago from the university. I have never been able to find the Roman
period II book so I suspect it was never printed, or if so extremely limited.
Some archeological books have printings in the low hundreds. Viking Artefacts
for example from the British Museum has a printing of only 800 and is highly
sought after. It took me four or so years and five tries to get one.
UPPSALA UNIVERSITET : Arkeologi och Antik historia : Publications
AUN 4 Lena Thunmark-Nylén. Vikingatida dosspännen – teknisk stratigrafi och
verkstadsgruppering. (Viking Age box brooches – technical stratigraphy and
workshop grouping.) 1983. 152 pp., 122 figs., I map, 58 tables.
AUN 7 Ingmar Jansson. Ovala spännbucklor. En studie av vikingatida
standardsmycken med utgångspunkt från Björkö- fynden. (Oval brooches. A study of
Viking Period standard jewellery based on the finds from Björkö (Birka),
Sweden.) 1985. 238 pp., 142 figs., 4 table.
AUN 13 Pär Hansson. Samhälle och järn i Sverige under järnåldern och äldre
medeltiden. Exemplet Närke. (Society and iron in Sweden during the Iron Age and
early Middle Ages. Exemplified by the Province of Närke.) 1989. 174 pp., 130
figs., 19 tables, 13 appendices. Shows lots of furnace remains.
AUN 17 Kent Andersson. Romartida guldsmide i Norden. I. Katalog. (Roman period
gold jewellery in the Nordic countries. I. Catalogue.) 1993. 309 pp., 146 figs.
AUN 21 Kent Andersson. Romartida guldsmide i Norden. III. Övriga smycken,
teknisk analys och verkstadsgrupper. (Roman period gold jewellery in the Nordic
countries. III. Other objects, technical analysis and workshop groups.) 1995.
244 pp., 211 figs.
AUN 21: Kent Andersson: Romartida guldsmide i Norden III. Övriga smycken,
teknisk analys och verkstadsgrupper. (Roman period gold jewellery in the
Nordic countries. III. Other objects, technical analysis and workshop groups.)
Aun 21. Uppsala 244 pp. 211 figs. ISBN 91-506-1116-X, ISSN 0284-1347.
"This dissertation is based on Nordic finds of gold jewellery from the
Roman period. All types, except finger rings, are represented in the study.
The introduction discusses the methodological basis for this work followed by
an analysis of the individual types. The primary questions are chorology,
connection to sex, function, relation to status groups, provenance and
chronology. The type analysis has been done in a static way to facilitate
comparisons between individual types, and the questions have been chosen to
enable the results to be used in the subsequent technical analysis.
Within the frame for this later analysis is discussed the position of the
smith in prehistorical society, the organisation of the workshops and the
methodological prerequisites for grouping this type of material into workshop
groups. Examples of earlier attempts to group this material are also given. Two
of the most widely distributed decorative forms are discussed:
filigree/granulation and punching.
The section on filigree/granulation establishes that filigree wire has been
produced in several separate ways and that the way of production has no
chronoligical or chorological significance. This is also valid for the
soldering technique which is based on the non-metallic solder. Thus the
technichal aspects have not been important in the attempt to divide the
filigree material into workshopgroups. A method involving stylistic analysis
has been implemented studying different ways of using wire types, decorative
elements etc. The material has been treated from a geographical/chronological
perspective and it has been possible to establish that there were workshops
producing filigree/granulation in several separate places within the
investigation area. It has also been possible to determine central and
peripheral workshops.
The treatment of punch decorated material, which is mailny from the
later Roman period, consists mostly of aspects of chorology and chronology.
There is also a discussion on the cultural historical background of punching.
The division of the punch decorated material into workshop groups has included
a punch identity analysis based on casts of the punch impression. A new method
has been developed for this purpose and has been found very suitable for this
type of studies. In spite of the 254 impressions used for this analysis it has
only been possible to establish punch identity between individual objects in
three cases. The three objects are all from the same find. The results of the
analysis points to a larger number of workshops working in parallel within
separate parts on the investigation area.
Keywords: Roman Iron Age, gold jewellery, goldsmiths and handicraft
organisation, goldsmith techniques, workshop groups."
AUN 23 Jutta Waller. Dräktnålar och dräktskick i östra Mälardalen. Kontinuitet
och förändring under folkvandringstid och vendeltid. (Dress Pins and Style of
Dress in the Eastern Mälar Region. Continuity and change in the Migration and
Vendel periods.) 1996. 211 pp. 84 figs. 32 pls.
If you really like Gotland Stuff then you may want
Lena Thunmark-Nylen's Vikingatiden Gotlands.
Buying them through Oxbowbooks.com may well be cheaper than the stiff Swedish
Postage.
The Viking Age Artefacts from Gotland in Swedish and foreign museums are
described. The material is sorted according to parish and findspot (church and
churchyard; farmsteads alphabetically; bog finds; the parish without defined
findspot). The inventory numbers are sorted in the following order: SHM,
KMK, GF, other Gotlandic collections, other Swedish museums, museums
outside Sweden. The find circumstances of the objects or complexes are given.
The objects (with type numbers) of the most important categories are collected
in 47 find lists (for instance, penannular brooches, dress pins, knives, swords,
horse equipment, vessels). In a short word list the most important terms
are translated from German into English and Swedish.
Thunmark-Nylén, Lena: Die Wikingerzeit Gotlands I, Abbildungen der Grabfunde;
This volume is therefore only the first of several on the Viking Age of Gotland.
Over 500 photos. (KVHAA Stockholm 1996)
Paperback ISBN: 9174022415
Book # 16661P Oxbow Price: £ 40.00
This volume provides photos of the grave groups from some 450 Viking
graves on Gotland, approximately 40% of the known excavated graves on the
island; illustrated at 1:1 the graves are arranged in chronological order and
by sites. A further volume will illustrate the finds from the remaining graves
and the two together will provide the basis for a catalogue and study of the
material.
Thunmark-Nylén, Lena: : Die Wikingerzeit Gotlands II: Typentafeln
Volume of plates arranged by types of find. Includes an index concordance
which allows the reader to reconstruct associations. German text. 307 b/w and 8
col pls (Almqvist and Wiksell 1998) ISBN: 9174022873 Book # 23833P Oxbow Price:
£ 43.50
Holmqvist, Wilhelm: Övergångstidens Metallkonst; Kungl. Vitterhets, Historie
och antivitets akadmiens handlingar, antikvariska serien 11.
(The Metal Art of the Transitional Period and it's Chronology)
Period of transition is between the pagan and the Christian era - 11th and 12th Cs.
Almqvist and Wiksell, Stockholm - Goteborg - Uppsala.
Illustr. Sth 1963. 180 pp. (150:K) English Summary in back.
Depicts christianized memorial stones, crucifixes, encopia (folding cruxifixes),
pendants in gold and silver with filigree and animal decoration, decorated
bowls, book covers, altar top, wooden bench ends, processional crosses,
pendants with chains with animal heads, relic capsules, sword hanger,
decorated belt buckles, bronze animal headed key, animal head terminaled
woven silver arm band, animal head terminals, a bell reliquary, gold
pendants with filigree and granulation, close ups of some box brooches, gold and
silver brooches with filigree and granulation, A reliquary, a ship's weathervane,
Abbot Theophanu's relic cross from Essen, metal bookbinding from Ireland,
The Clonmacnoise, Ireland crosier. All in B&W.
Holmqvist, Wilhelm and Birgit Arrhenius: Golden Age and Viking Art in Sweden;
(in English) Historiska Museet, Stockholm, 1965, 58 pp..
Most of it is by W. Holmquist . Apparently the techniques changed quite a bit
during the Vendel to Viking periods with some techniques changing and others
being lost - like enamelling. Rather instructive but lacking somewhat in
translation of some techniques.
One of the changes was the near disappearance of the pressed foils
technique in the Viking age, let's say much less common. These would be the
gold or silver foils made over the matrices - bronze plaque like plates
especially made for repeat designs, such as helmet plates.
The reappearance of Viking chased metalwork after a lapse.
There is a slight discussion of grinding garnet flat or convex for
better appearance to fit in the cloissons (cells) of the metalwork but no
mention of how it was cut to fit them. The reason why I am interested in this
is that it must have been difficult to make the interlinking cross designs of
the Sutton Hoo pieces. They had extremely sharp corners in them. Sutton Hoo is
just blow away work. The book mentions using resin to set the pieces in the
cloissons, then it goes on to mention plaster and clay at a later date. The
cell walls were still pressed over to secure the pieces. It mentions the change
from Geometric motifs to Germanic Animal Art. Finally the cement changes to a
mixture of beeswax and finely crushed limestone. It says the richest age for
cloissone work was 400-800 AD finally disappearing all together in the Viking
Age. It says the garnets no longer have faceted edges but bear traces of being
sawn only.
Golden Age and Viking Art in Sweden_ has chapters (usually very short) on
Casting, Engraving, Chasing, Punch and Stamping, Incrustation, Filigree and
Granulation, Cloissone, Enamel, and Patination and Coloration. Some of the
chapters are only a few pages.
There are photographic plates in the back of the book but no illustrations of
techniques in the text. There are a few terms that look like they didn't quite
make
it in technical translation from the Swedish. But it is a good book. Part of the
problem, and part of the good part of it, is that it relates in very short
paragraphs
the historical development of some of the techniques all the way back to the
Egyptians, and you're a bit confused keeping up with the period that Holmquist is
discussing in some of the chapters. No bibliography is given. This is a museum
catalog meant to enlighten curious folks to a particular exhibition. There are 287
objects listed but not anywhere all depicted in the plates in the book.
Holmqvist, Wilhelm: GULDHALSKRAGARNA, Foto Soren Hallgren m fl;:
Stockholm, LTs Forlag, i samarbete med Statens Historiska Museum;
Illustr. Sth 1980. 128 pp. Inb. (150:-K)
This concerns the famous Gold Hall in the National Museum and its treasures.
Holmquist, Wilhelm: Swedish Vikings on Helgo and Birka;
Studio Granath, Stockholm for the Swedish Booksellers' Assn, Printed in
Sweden by Falts Trykeri, Varnamo, 1979, ISBN 9197038911
Contains a great deal of mostly color pictures of Viking and pre-Viking
jewelery and metalwork and beads. Also includes a view of a reconstructed
chest with the original hardware in place. One lock depicted. 140 pages.
Holmqvist, Wilhelm: TAUSCHIERTE METALLARBEITEN DES NORDENS
Aus Romerzeit und Volkerwanderung; Stocholm, Wahlstrom & Widstrand,
Illustr. Sth 1951. 160 pp. (200:-K)
The first word doesn't ring a bell with me but the rest means Metalwork of the
Northerners. From the Roman Age to the Folkwandering.
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Excavations at Helgö IV. Workshop. Part I. Ed. Wilhelm Holmqvist et al.
Illustr. Sth 1972. 268 pp. + Plates. 4:o.
SEK 275 (USD~ 33) · ask Redins Antikvariat, Uppsala (SE) · RED1922 ·
EXCAVATIONS AT HELGO IV - WORKSHOP part I (In English) Editor
Wilhelm Holmqvist in collaboration with _Kristina Lamm_, Agneta
Lundstrom, Jutta Waller. About 300 pages and plates. Kungl Vitterhets,
Historie Och Antikvitets Akadamien, Stockholm, Sweden by Almqvist
and Wiksells Boktryckeri AB, Uppsala 1972 ISBN 91-7192-033-1
This contains an overview of the huge shop area and pictures of
about a thousand or so artifacts and molds of square headed bow
relief brooches, clasp buttons, dress pins, a few buckles, a key,
glass necklace and a few odd metal pieces. It shows many
of the mold pieces and catalogs design variations.
You need to view the following book to understand the molding and
casting process. You will note that Kristina Lamm is again the
author of the relevant article in it:
BRITISH MUSEUM OCCAISIONAL PAPER NUMBER 17 'Aspects of Early
Metallurgy', edited by W.A.Oddy, British Museum Research Laboratory
1980. ISBN 0 86159 016 3. The Article relevant is: Early Medieval
Metalworking on Helgo in Central Sweden, by Kristina Lamm. Until
you see this one you really won't understand the other book.
There are very good diagrams of several types of completed piece
molds in the article, not in broken pieces as in the above book.
The BMOP#17 also contains a bunch of other articles on early metal
work, much of it quite sophisticated. There are among them articles
on gilding, tinning, gold and silver working (with a roman style
lathe turning a soldier's metal pan/sieve to clean it up), joining
and casting arts. A short article in it makes reference to early
Celtic British casting at Gussage All Saints, which is another
extensive metalcasting find. That is not covered in it's entirety
in this book. Its reference is listed below.
Anders Soderburg of the Viking Bronze Casting wepapges has revised
some of the thought on the techniques and I believe is publishing
with K. Lamm about the newer theories.
http://members.chello.se/vikingbronze/index.htm
Lost Wax metal casting of the VIKING AGE is covered in English in
RIBE EXCAVATIONS 1970-76, Volume 2, edited by Mogens Bencard,
Sydjysk Universitetsforlag, Esberg, l984. This is another fairly
large book and the part you are looking for is:
METALCASTING Techniques, Production and Workshops, by H. Brinch
Madsen. This book principally covers the lost wax process of the
Viking age and is most likely the original source for those two
page casting techniques you see in other books on the Vikings.
The technique here centers on casting the turtle or Berdal brooches
using a cloth, wax and clay molding process. It is very well illus-
trated as to the technique and the designs of the pieces themselves.
A few keys are illustrated, so are mold pieces. It also shows why
cloth impressions are found on the back of Berdal brooches.
Bone wax modeling tools can be found in the following books on
Gussage All-Saints, there are four with multiple views of each.:
Wainwright, G.J.: Gussage All Saints - An Iron Age Settlement in Dorset;
Department of the Environment, Archaeological Report Number 10., London,
Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1979. ISBN 0 11 670831 X, 202 pages, index
plus 87 plates; First Edition, US$ 50.00
This principally deals with casting horse fittings for chariots, but the tools,
molds, and crucibles are illustrated. The interesting thing here is their
ability to cast rings within rings.
Wainwright G.: The Iron Age settlement of Gussage All Saints - Part I: The
Settlement. Part 2: The Bronze Foundry. Description: 22pp 1figs 5b/w pls
Printed Card Cover Publisher: Academic Journal Offprint from - Antiquity 186
1973. Publication Date: 1973
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Master Magnus, OL
Great Barony of Windmasters Hill, The Manx, Great Dark Horde
Society of Archer-Antiquaries.
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