Saturday, October 01, 2011

VA Glass Bead Experiment 9/10/11

Viking Age Bead Making
September 2011
All made in 'K' furnace (Ribe oval - charcoal fired)

A note to Readers : This was my contribution to a much larger effort, comprising of three furnaces and four bead makers. See Neil Peterson's entire report on the DARC web site.

Furnace Layout
'K' Furnace MeasurementsTheoretical Air Flow
Furnace Details
Showing Air SystemCutting Loading PortAfter Loading Charcoal
Working Port A (used for experiment)Working Port B

Note : open your browser window REAL wide to see the full table!

BEADBASE COLOURPATTERN COLOURPATTERN TYPESURFACEIMAGEGLASSSHAPE
see below
DIAMETER mmWIDTH mmMANDRILHOLE MAX mmHOLE MIN mm WORK LOCATIONWORK DETAILBREAK?PIECESSHAPPING


















9-11Aredbluestringer
9-11A.jpgcaneflat oval10.4 E5.6 Ess rod3.7 E
chimney
removal2/3 only


















9-11Bredblackstringer
9-11B.jpgcaneflat oval9.64.6ss rod3.6
chimney
chip in annealer



















9-11Credblackline
9-11C.jpgcaneoval12.6 E9.1
4.6
chimney
removal1/2 onlydraw to one end


















9-11Dorange


9-11D.jpgtesseriflat oval11.55.5iron5.34.7port A





















9-11Eyellowblue-greyline
9-11E.jpgtesserioval10.37.2iron3.62.9port A


points both sides


















9-11Fyellow

rolled9-11F.jpgtesseribarrel12.412.5iron4.13.5port Aoff floornext daythirdsash coated


















9-11Gbluebrownblobcut bars9-11G.jpgtesseribarrel13.711.8iron42.6port A





















9-11Hblueredstringer
9-11H.jpgtesserioval9.55.3iron3.12.8port Aoff spoonremovalhalf


















9-11Ilight blueblackdots
9-11I.jpgcaneoval13.68.9iron43.5chimneyoff bottom surfacein annealerhalfslightly irregular


















9-11Jblueblackstringer
9-11J.jpgtesseriround10.69iron3.32.3port & chimneystringer off spoonremoval1/2 only
Definitions of SHAPES indicated above:
Individual Beads Described above :



Bead 9-11 ABead 9-11 B (chipped)Bead 9-11 C (half only retrieved)
Bead 9-11 DBead 9-11 EBead 9-11 F
Bead 9-11 GBead 9-11 HBead 9-11 1(broke later)
Bead 9-11 J (half only retrieved)

1 comment:

vandy said...

My browser window is as open as it will get, and I'm still missing a chunk off the right hand side. And there's no option to scroll...
v

 

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