And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Prehistoric Axe Mould, The Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, Yorkshire Dales
Make yours today while modern tooling still available.
ReplyDeletebake before pouring.
ReplyDeleteIts interesting as it indicates they were melting metal at that stage...
ReplyDeleteBronze or copper as iron would destroy stone.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn’t look deep enough. That would make an extremely thin ax head.
ReplyDeleteKlaus
What kind of stone is that, and how were they able to chisel (?) out the shape so sharply and make the side of the blade so smooth?
ReplyDeleteIts not am ax head mould. Its a NACA inlet.
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