Scandanvian bronze casting in the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages
'Bronze casting is an elegant play with a couple of cubic-decimeters of borrowed hell.'
Anders Soderberg
This website has information on all of the main topic involved in VA bronze casting. I have really enjoyed reading this collection.
It covers bronze compositions in the VA, taking into account the need to make adjustments once the zinc levels drop due to refiring of the product. Anders also outlines some of the properties of migration era and VA crucibles, as well as practical suggestions on how to replicate these mixes. The discussion on the use of wax models to imprint clay to make moulds has a some great, trialled theories about the speed of mould production and cleaning up. I even like the references to VA hearths and smiths. But most useful were the pictures. There are photos of methods being used and products alongside their moulds and the tools.
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