Glockenguss einer karolingischen Bienenkorbglocke-Angewandte Archäometallurgie #medievalbellfounding

Casting of a Carolingian early church bell. The lost wax process is the technique of bell casting, from the emergence of church bell founding in the 8th century until about the 13th century. Only then the nowaday still widely used bell founding process was developed, as the bells became ever larger and heavier.