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Schäftungsklemme
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Iron Age mining in Hallstatt
Help pls. with this Austrian Iron Age term from mining in the Hallstatt region :
shaft, hafting or scarf holding clamp, lining, clamping shaft joint or sth. else? My DE/EN Art History - Archeology Glossary draws a blank.
I'm loath (rather than loathed) to use the term 'shafting' below.
Context : 'Am Dürrnberg (A) bilden die *Schäftungsklemmen* und ihre Fragmente die größte Fundgruppe. Sie dienten zur Verbindung von Pickel und Schäftung.' and 'Auch zur Reparatur von Geräten und zum Binden waren die zahlreichen aufgefundenen Riemen und Riemenwerke im Einsatz. Diese wurden wie die Schäftungsklemmen teilweise in Sekundärnutzung aus anderen, unbrauchbar gewordenen Gegenständen hergestellt, auch aus Schuhresten, wie die Form und die Bearbeitungsspuren zeigen.'
No image copiable, but looks like a rusty horse-shoe clamp.
shaft, hafting or scarf holding clamp, lining, clamping shaft joint or sth. else? My DE/EN Art History - Archeology Glossary draws a blank.
I'm loath (rather than loathed) to use the term 'shafting' below.
Context : 'Am Dürrnberg (A) bilden die *Schäftungsklemmen* und ihre Fragmente die größte Fundgruppe. Sie dienten zur Verbindung von Pickel und Schäftung.' and 'Auch zur Reparatur von Geräten und zum Binden waren die zahlreichen aufgefundenen Riemen und Riemenwerke im Einsatz. Diese wurden wie die Schäftungsklemmen teilweise in Sekundärnutzung aus anderen, unbrauchbar gewordenen Gegenständen hergestellt, auch aus Schuhresten, wie die Form und die Bearbeitungsspuren zeigen.'
No image copiable, but looks like a rusty horse-shoe clamp.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | hafting clamp |
Sakshi Garg
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| 3 | hafting shim |
Bourth
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Proposed translations
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Sakshi Garg
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hafting clamp
a device used to secure a tool, such as a pickaxe, to its handle (haft), which is a common practice in ancient tool-making and repair >
https://stonetoolsmuseum.com/story/hafted-tools/
https://books.openedition.org/momeditions/12457?lang=en
https://stonetoolsmuseum.com/story/hafted-tools/
https://books.openedition.org/momeditions/12457?lang=en
Note from asker:
| very nice, shukria and thank you. |
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Ties in well with the translation suggested by 'Er Indoors (the wife)."
14 hrs
hafting shim
It's hard to know what these mining picks actually looked like, though I get the impression they might be the right-angled haft with a hollowed pick that slipped over the end. See illustrations and discussion here:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/85212045.pdf
However, whatever the shape of the tool, it is clear that with time the iron part loosened from the haft. There is much discussion of how rags were used to fill the gap, also scraps of shoe leather as in your document.
I imagine your 'clamp' fulfils the same purpose in the same way, so it would be a circle or partial circle (I take it that by 'horseshoe clamp' you mean a 'clamp' [sic?] of horseshoe shape) of iron of non-defined length/depth not on the outside, as a clamp, but between the pick head and the handle.
I'd call this a 'shim'. 'Wedge' could also work, but I'd be afraid it would be confused with the wedges driven into the end of an axe handle, for example, to firmly secure the head.
Check out Klemme here:
https://www.amazon.de/Stücke-Motorrad-Lenkerhalterung-Klemme...
https://www.snowbitch.de/klemme-tilt-tilt-double-clamp-shimm...
https://www.rmdbike.de/de_DE/p/Lucky-Triple-Reduzierung-Shim...
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Note added at 14 hrs (2024-05-24 23:23:02 GMT)
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I see the smaller axehead sitting on a "shelf" in your picture. Is the head then wedged against the haft using shaped pieces of steel or wood driven between head and haft to lock it in place? Like a shim?
http://myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.20901.html
If the eye is a bit wide for the haft you can glue in a shim on each side.
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/hafting-question.1757591...
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/85212045.pdf
However, whatever the shape of the tool, it is clear that with time the iron part loosened from the haft. There is much discussion of how rags were used to fill the gap, also scraps of shoe leather as in your document.
I imagine your 'clamp' fulfils the same purpose in the same way, so it would be a circle or partial circle (I take it that by 'horseshoe clamp' you mean a 'clamp' [sic?] of horseshoe shape) of iron of non-defined length/depth not on the outside, as a clamp, but between the pick head and the handle.
I'd call this a 'shim'. 'Wedge' could also work, but I'd be afraid it would be confused with the wedges driven into the end of an axe handle, for example, to firmly secure the head.
Check out Klemme here:
https://www.amazon.de/Stücke-Motorrad-Lenkerhalterung-Klemme...
https://www.snowbitch.de/klemme-tilt-tilt-double-clamp-shimm...
https://www.rmdbike.de/de_DE/p/Lucky-Triple-Reduzierung-Shim...
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Note added at 14 hrs (2024-05-24 23:23:02 GMT)
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I see the smaller axehead sitting on a "shelf" in your picture. Is the head then wedged against the haft using shaped pieces of steel or wood driven between head and haft to lock it in place? Like a shim?
http://myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.20901.html
If the eye is a bit wide for the haft you can glue in a shim on each side.
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/hafting-question.1757591...
Note from asker:
| Thanks, Bourth. Albeit 'retired' from Egyptology editing etc., I had to send out the abstract yesterday to the Vienna Uni. archeologists involved, including 'Er Indoors. |
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Note from asker:
| Thanks, Liz, for the good research work done in and at Pompey. |
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