Episode 2 - Iron: Sharp Things and Blunderbusses

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Listen to "Ep 002 Iron - Sharp Things and Blunderbusses" on Spreaker.

Link to the Episode

Episode 2 - Iron: Sharp Things and Blunderbusses

Link to the Enormous Starling Flock

Black Sun: Amorphous Flocks of Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands from Colossal on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/478504402 

More Iron things from the Reverend Mr. Higginson's list

1 Broad Axe  

1 Felling Axe 

1 Steel handsaw  

1 gimblet - item 'K' on pg. 3, and description on pg. 15

1 Whipsaw  

1 hatchet

1 hammer

2 frowes (froes) - 

By Nienetwiler - Own work, CC BY 2.5 ch, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10523219

1 auger

4 chissels

Nayles (nails) of all sorts 

--- other 17th Century Blades

Shingle/Draw knife - 

slaveryandremeberance.org / Colonial Williamsburg



Kitchen knife

Personal/Table knife 


Trade Knife 

---- early 17th Century swords

Basket Hilt sword 

metmuseum.org - basket hilt

Backsword (basically a straight cutlass - single edged for cutting not stabbing.)

Falchion/Cutlass

By Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=232309

--- early 17th Century matchlocks 

Photo by: Anguskirk - on Flikr.com
Detail shot of a meticulous replica


Fowling piece

Blunderbuss


Interesting Books:

Pestana, Carla Gardina. The World of Plymouth Plantation. Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020 

Horn, James. A Kingdon Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. New York: Basic Books, 2010

Tunis, Edwin. Colonial Living. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

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