[Regia-NA] Testing a Theory about whetstones!

[J. K. Siddorn]

OK, got it now.

Thanks Sandy.

Regards,


Kim Siddorn.

The early bird may get the worm -
but the second mouse gets the cheese!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Frojel Gotlandica" <frojel@dcsi.net.au>
To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Testing a Theory about whetstones!


NO Kim they are there right at the bottom of the page, scroll down mate, the
needle is 10cm long and I was
the lucky person to actually excavated it, every year I find more silver
there but no Spillings hoard yet, oh
well next year.
They should call that the Silver island. I actually dug up 2 silver coins,
the needle and 2 silver brooches that
trip. :-)
Sandy


>Erm, no. Wrong number Sandy!
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Kim Siddorn.
>
>The early bird may get the worm -
>but the second mouse gets the cheese!
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Frojel Gotlandica" <frojel@dcsi.net.au>
>To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
>Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:26 AM
>Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Testing a Theory about whetstones!
>
>
>If you look at the Frojel page, gallery 25   find No 82, 83, 84, 85 you
will
>see a pin from a large cloak
>brooch which has been used as Hack Silver. note the large number of cuts in
>the metal. An excellent
>example.
> http://www.frojel.com/_index.html
>Cheers
>Sandy
>
>
>>Hey,
>>No one mentioned that apparently most (if not nearly all) bits of silver
>>found (particularly hack silver in hoards) contain nicks and such marks
>>from testing.
>>
>>Very interesting.
>>
>>Do you have a digital camera?  Maybe you could take some pictures?  If you
>>have a scanner, I bet you could scan the stone directly.  Although I'd
>>suggest putting a sheet of clear acetate or something on the glass of the
>>scanner first.
>>
>>If you don't have a DC or scanner, if you want to loan me your stone, I'll
>>take some pictures and then send it back to you.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Tom
>>
>>At 09:24 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Hej!
>>>     Well I have to eat my words.  The whetstone test for impure silver
>>>worked far better than I expected it to.  I first took a piece of fine
>>>silver (.9999) & made an initial rub test spot it looked kind of dark,
not
>>>shinny at all.  Next to the fine silver I rubbed a piece of Sterling
>(.925)
>>>& the mark was noticeably a little darker.  I then debased a small piece
>of
>>>fine silver with about an equal weight of brass wire (I don't know the
>exact
>>>composition of the wire I used) by melting them together, I pickled &
>>>polished the resulting silver compound (.5~).  It was about the same
color
>>>as the Sterling when viewed as a piece of silver, but notably less
>malleable
>>>than the fine silver.  When I rubbed it on the other side of my test mark
>it
>>>came out much darker than either the fine silver or the Sterling.  While
I
>>>am not ready to concede that this was the only purpose of the whetstones,
>I
>>>will believe it is one possible use for a commonly carried item.  Ain't
>>>experimental archaeology great!
>>>Pax,
>>>Olaf
>>>
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