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I wondered how the ancients made the hole for the axe handle. Well somebody in the Latvian National History museum has reconstructed the machine.
Posted Comments:
cerrig (2011-02-10)
I can picture Ray Mears using that. What a marvelous machine. Not bad for ignorant savages.
Runemage (2011-02-10)
Black and Decker BCE ;-)
Blingo von Trumpenstein (2011-02-15)
I've never read anything or seen any evidence for such a machine . . . Entirely possible but I will research further . . . The drilling principle is certainly correct. Many axe perforation cores have been found and many axes partly finished. When viewing non-eroded perforated stone axes with lenses it is very obvious they were drilled rather than pecked. Most interesting . . .
Thanks stugsie.
Thanks stugsie.
Blingo von Trumpenstein (2011-02-15)
Info from a (the) leading Danish lithics expert:
I know this reconstruction, drilling machine, -pure imagination if you ask me. Very few axes have been drilled, most have been tapped with flint chisels –in Danienflint.
Several toolset have been found. In the Gottorp Castle archaeology Sleswig the Experimental archaeology have made experiments, they could make a hole in only 3 hours. Not even with modern tools you can make a hole in 3 hours.
He knows his onions . . .
Blingo_von_T
I know this reconstruction, drilling machine, -pure imagination if you ask me. Very few axes have been drilled, most have been tapped with flint chisels –in Danienflint.
Several toolset have been found. In the Gottorp Castle archaeology Sleswig the Experimental archaeology have made experiments, they could make a hole in only 3 hours. Not even with modern tools you can make a hole in 3 hours.
He knows his onions . . .
Blingo_von_T
Martin L (2011-02-15)
Schleswig, Schloß Gottorf:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18163
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18163
stugsie (2011-02-16)
Wow guys I'm new to this megalithic game.. I wish you people weren't so cryptic with your comments. Gospodin Blingo please elaborate as for Martin L ..what are you?? A crossword fan!!
Gospodin Blingo very interesting your suggestion that the ancients were able to rapidly manufacture these axes using onions. Did your Danish lithics expert give you any clues as to how the onions were used??
Gospodin Blingo very interesting your suggestion that the ancients were able to rapidly manufacture these axes using onions. Did your Danish lithics expert give you any clues as to how the onions were used??
Martin L (2011-02-16)
@stugsie: as "Blingo" mentioned the museum at Gottorp/Goddorp castle/Schloß in Sleswig/Schleswig I just linked to our site page, so anybody interested could have a look a their opening hours and so on....Less cryptic now?
stugsie (2011-02-16)
Wow thank you Martin L. I'm beginning to get the score. It's just that I'm hoping some of my mates in the Surfside retirement village on the Gold Coast are following my travels. (they very kindly pooled their pensions to fund me) and I know if things get too obtuse they lose interest and and could even lose the will to live.....and I lose my funding. Hopefully tomorrow morning they will click on your link and have hours of pleasure surfing the museum web site.
cerrig (2011-02-17)
I wish I hadn't said anything now.
Blingo von Trumpenstein (2011-02-17)
@stugsie,
LOL
Fossil onions chipped to pointed chisels for pecking perforations in stone axes !!!!!
(Knows his onions is a well known phrase in Britain - it means he really knows what he is talking about . . .). Only 5 of my battle axes are definitely drilled.
Rock on
Blingo_von_T
LOL
Fossil onions chipped to pointed chisels for pecking perforations in stone axes !!!!!
(Knows his onions is a well known phrase in Britain - it means he really knows what he is talking about . . .). Only 5 of my battle axes are definitely drilled.
Rock on
Blingo_von_T
stugsie (2011-02-17)
@Blingo_von_T. Fantastic have you posted pix of your axes anywhere???
Blingo von Trumpenstein (2011-02-18)
@stugsie,
I have posted a few pics on this site. Click on my name and you'll see the photos I have posted. Nothing posted anywhere else (yet) . . .
I am looking into possibly trying to sell some of the pics as it is very hard to acquire these items and also I have taken some good photos of them at ancient sites so there can't be too many people doing the same (none as far as I know).
I might create an 'axe at an ancient site' calendar for next year . . .
Have fun on your travels,
Blingo_von_T
I have posted a few pics on this site. Click on my name and you'll see the photos I have posted. Nothing posted anywhere else (yet) . . .
I am looking into possibly trying to sell some of the pics as it is very hard to acquire these items and also I have taken some good photos of them at ancient sites so there can't be too many people doing the same (none as far as I know).
I might create an 'axe at an ancient site' calendar for next year . . .
Have fun on your travels,
Blingo_von_T
stugsie (2011-03-01)
@cerrig..re "I wish I hadn't said anything now" Thanks for taking an interest in this slightly tatty corner of Europe. I spent a lazy half hour or so enjoying your photos.... awesome.
cerrig (2011-03-01)
stugsie; I hope you enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed this one. The " ignorant savages" wasn't referring to the Latvian museum worker's by the way.
stugsie (2011-03-01)
@cerrig..... Kool
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