Textile Textured Silver Ingots: A Technical Investigation into how these Textures came to be on some Viking Hoard Ingots

The ‘West Coast Cumbria’ hoard, discovered in 2014, is a late ninth/ early tenth-century Viking silver hoard, housed at the Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, UK. It is composed of 20 Viking silver objects: bar-shaped ingots and ornaments, in various stages of fragmentation (PAS ‘Find-ID’ LANCUM-FA14C8). On...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:a659e1c4774845969b45d45249bba8f02021-12-01T14:42:33ZTextile Textured Silver Ingots: A Technical Investigation into how these Textures came to be on some Viking Hoard Ingots2212-8956https://doaj.org/article/a659e1c4774845969b45d45249bba8f02018-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10370https://doaj.org/toc/2212-8956The ‘West Coast Cumbria’ hoard, discovered in 2014, is a late ninth/ early tenth-century Viking silver hoard, housed at the Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, UK. It is composed of 20 Viking silver objects: bar-shaped ingots and ornaments, in various stages of fragmentation (PAS ‘Find-ID’ LANCUM-FA14C8). One, complete ingot (museum no. 2016.162.5) bears coarse cloth-impressions on its upper surface i.e. the face that was in direct contact with the mould. How such textile imprints were acquired is somewhat of a mystery.Dave MeyersEXARCarticlesilvertextilemetallurgyclayviking ageusaMuseums. Collectors and collectingAM1-501ArchaeologyCC1-960ENEXARC Journal, Iss 2018/4 (2018)
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topic silver
textile
metallurgy
clay
viking age
usa
Museums. Collectors and collecting
AM1-501
Archaeology
CC1-960
spellingShingle silver
textile
metallurgy
clay
viking age
usa
Museums. Collectors and collecting
AM1-501
Archaeology
CC1-960
Dave Meyers
Textile Textured Silver Ingots: A Technical Investigation into how these Textures came to be on some Viking Hoard Ingots
description The ‘West Coast Cumbria’ hoard, discovered in 2014, is a late ninth/ early tenth-century Viking silver hoard, housed at the Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, UK. It is composed of 20 Viking silver objects: bar-shaped ingots and ornaments, in various stages of fragmentation (PAS ‘Find-ID’ LANCUM-FA14C8). One, complete ingot (museum no. 2016.162.5) bears coarse cloth-impressions on its upper surface i.e. the face that was in direct contact with the mould. How such textile imprints were acquired is somewhat of a mystery.
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title Textile Textured Silver Ingots: A Technical Investigation into how these Textures came to be on some Viking Hoard Ingots
title_short Textile Textured Silver Ingots: A Technical Investigation into how these Textures came to be on some Viking Hoard Ingots
title_full Textile Textured Silver Ingots: A Technical Investigation into how these Textures came to be on some Viking Hoard Ingots
title_fullStr Textile Textured Silver Ingots: A Technical Investigation into how these Textures came to be on some Viking Hoard Ingots
title_full_unstemmed Textile Textured Silver Ingots: A Technical Investigation into how these Textures came to be on some Viking Hoard Ingots
title_sort textile textured silver ingots: a technical investigation into how these textures came to be on some viking hoard ingots
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