Sensational find of mould for pendants - Viking age !

[TheDane]

Hi T-Netters !


This might be the most sensational find that I ever made !?

It is a bronze mould for viking age pendants, most likely of gold or silver.




Enjoy !

 

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wow ----great find

 

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[The Patriot]

That's an awesome find there... BANNER

 

[TheDane]

I can not use it to make pendants as it is an ancient artefact and must be given to the museum.
The archaeologist in the museum will make the further investigations on it.

 

[CRUSADER]

Now why is that not on the banner

Humm Nice Find But

No Story of When Where Etc.
Pics hosted on Image Shack
not Posted Directly to Here.
Pics Rectangular.
I Can't Crop & Resize a Rectangular
Picture Square

See Pic two from the Left on the Banner
I Had to Crop the top coins off
Because the Picture was Rectangular.

Sorry, but I do not know how to post pictures directly !
I can make a square picture, if you like.

The find is from my discovered Viking age trading place in Denmark.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,275482.0.html

When posting look under the Message: box (area like this where I'm typing) for the Add Images: Then Click the 'Browse..' Button & find your attachment (picture). (I put it on my desktop for easy). Make sure its under 256kb.
After doing 1 picture. Click on (more attachments) & continue the process.

 

[nova treasure]

Excellent Museum Find,

Congrats, Nova Treasure

 

[TheDane]

Here is now a square picture of the find !

 

[scratcher]

Congrats on the well-deserved banner!

 

[IronSpike]

Congrats on the Banner and the awesome relic

Was it found at the site on Aeroe?

 

[Patrol]

Help me visualize this. Would there be another half to this mold, or, would it be poured flat?
The top part looks like a "sprue" and the cross piece a "riser" which would mean there would be another half to the mold.

Awesome find!

Tom

 

[seger98]

Super neat find, congratulations on making the banner & the find!

 

[teddy]

WOW! Fab

teddy

 

[johnnyi]

Congratulations on a well deserved banner! As others have said, this is definately a museum piece!

Dane, I've been wondering how a bronze mold might have been used in the process to create ornaments which had higher melting points then the mold, such as silver and gold. From what I've read, silver, gold, and other metals with higher melting points would destroy a mold made of a lower melting point substance such as bronze. Anyway, it seems that during he Viking age many ornaments of gold were formed using the lost wax process. It might be possible that medalions such as this which a mold suggests were "mass produced", were made using the lost wax process also, but the process began with wax models formed in a bronze mold such as this. Then the wax product from your mold would go on to be used in the lost wax process??

 

[BuckleBoy]

I'm so glad this ended up on the banner.


Congratulations on a Stellar find!

 

[TheDane]

Congratulations on a well deserved banner! As others have said, this is definately a museum piece!

Dane, I've been wondering how a bronze mold might have been used in the process to create ornaments which had higher melting points then the mold, such as silver and gold. From what I've read, silver, gold, and other metals with higher melting points would destroy a mold made of a lower melting point substance such as bronze. Anyway, it seems that during he Viking age many ornaments of gold were formed using the lost wax process. It might be possible that medalions such as this which a mold suggests were "mass produced", were made using the lost wax process also, but the process began with wax models formed in a bronze mold such as this. Then the wax product from your mold would go on to be used in the lost wax process??

That is indeed a possibility, and I tend to say, that would be the purpose of this mould !!

An other aspect could be pendants made of lead, which are also known from that time about 8-900 AD.

 

[scratcher]

Congratulations on a well deserved banner! As others have said, this is definately a museum piece!

Dane, I've been wondering how a bronze mold might have been used in the process to create ornaments which had higher melting points then the mold, such as silver and gold. From what I've read, silver, gold, and other metals with higher melting points would destroy a mold made of a lower melting point substance such as bronze. Anyway, it seems that during he Viking age many ornaments of gold were formed using the lost wax process. It might be possible that medalions such as this which a mold suggests were "mass produced", were made using the lost wax process also, but the process began with wax models formed in a bronze mold such as this. Then the wax product from your mold would go on to be used in the lost wax process??

That is indeed a possibility, and I tend to say, that would be the purpose of this mould !!

An other aspect could be pendants made of lead, which are also known from that time about 8-900 AD.

It seems to me that they would not need to cast a wax piece with the hole for the pendant to hang from as that would easily be made after taking it out of the mold.

 

[goldnow]

I apologize and regret not seeing your post earlier. I would have been proud to nominate this magnificent find for the banner.

Absolutely a historical discovery...

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Beautiful mold, congrats! One of the best finds I have seen in a long time by a detector. HH, Mike

 

[jimbob450]

Fantastic find Way to go. Jimbob

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Fantastic find, center piece of any collection........

 

[birdman]

Extremely historic find. Truly a banner find!!