Oh, my giddy aunt, Ms. Blakelock is The. Most. Excellent. Presenter. Not only is the content fascinating, but she is such a fluent and relaxed presenter that her lecture is the most enjoyable one so far.
@SCCArchaeology
3 жыл бұрын
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@larsprec
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I have loved this series and hope for more.
@arikkraft5755
2 жыл бұрын
I speculate that the reason for finding so many sprues in the copper workings is there was a division amoung the people within the foundry. Some may have been slaves or forced labor to pay off debt or as a punishment perhaps like community service. Just as a reason why they wouldn't care as much about if the workshop was loosing property.
@Luncher100
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, that was very interesting. Could the "failed sprues" not be vents? Vents are put into a mould just to allow air to escape from extremities so that bubbles don't cause voids in the piece. If the molten material goes only partly up the vent, it's done its job, indeed its preferable and safer than when molten material squirts out of the mould. Or do we know that they didn't use vents perhaps?
@SCCArchaeology
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment. We're glad you enjoyed it! Interesting questions, which we'll pass onto Eleanor Blakelock.
@brianhunt3394
3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, especially the demonstration of poor workmanship in the gold and garnet objects being less than those in the Sutton Hoo and Staffordshire Hordes. Were they there to be reworked as someone learned the skills or from another site trying to make a copy? What about the bog iron rivets used in the Sutton Hoo Ship of Mound 1? There were around 3500 of these, would they have been made at Rendlesham? The detectorists were excluding ferrous metals from their scans so could evidence of these been missed?
@SCCArchaeology
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment. We're glad you enjoyed it! Interesting questions too, which we'll pass onto Eleanor Blakelock.
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