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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 6/2/2005, you wrote:
> If you are interested in the Viking woodworking techniques, then maybe you
> would be interested in some Viking tools to go along with them.
>
> You can find them at:

I have the book on the Mastermeyr find.  It is fascinating reading and the 
drawings are fabulous.  The book is an archeological paper on the chest and 
its contents..

The Mastermyr find is a 9th century tool box found in a Swedish farm field 
in Gotland in the 30s.  It is a complete tool box with metal, woodworking, 
and jewelry tools.  There are cooking pots and scrap iron in the mostly 
complete wooden chest.  Conjecture is that it is a tool box from a Viking 
age farm or was owned by a tool salesman.  The area where it was found was 
under water a thousand years ago and it is thought that the tool box fell 
overboard, possibly in a storm which are frequent in the area.

Several people have duplicated the tools and the chest because the book has 
very complete drawings with measurements.  The chest and its contents are 
currently in a Swedish museum.

http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/Viking/vikchest.html
http://www.netlabs.net/~osan/Mastermyr/


Don Bowen                          Awl Knotted Up

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