1,000-Year-Old Viking Toolbox Found

Harper · Post by **Harper** » Sat Dec 03, 2016 4:39 pm

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This is not the Mastermyr chest, it is a new find:

http://www.livescience.com/57063-viking ... D=ref_fark

Le-Loup · Post by **Le-Loup** » Sat Dec 03, 2016 8:24 pm

Harper wrote:.

This is not the Mastermyr chest, it is a new find:

http://www.livescience.com/57063-viking ... D=ref_fark

Keith.

Elleth · Post by **Elleth** » Sat Dec 03, 2016 11:43 pm

Neat!

I wish there were more/better images. Tons of ads on the site, when I finally got to what content there was it looked like just a muddy mess except for the drawplate.
Still a cool find!

Harper · Post by **Harper** » Mon Dec 05, 2016 7:13 pm

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Here is a reproduction of one (not the new find):

Elleth · Post by **Elleth** » Mon Dec 05, 2016 8:52 pm

I had seen that - neat! An old reenactor friend in Alaska was (I assume still is) a major Roy Underhill fan.

My (very unfinished) period sewing box is of the Mastermyr pattern - one of these days I need to get hubby to forge some hinges for me.

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Ringulf · Post by **Ringulf** » Thu Dec 22, 2016 7:55 pm

It's a damn good thing these guys rested their toolboxes on gunnels or walked across semi-frozen lakes every once in a while or we would know nothing about them! Seriously, you won't find the good tools that were owned by the master craftsman because they were most likely not as clumsy or careless so as to lose them! So in essence we have several examples of apprentice tools.

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