This Thor's Hammer or Mjolnir is based on an original Viking age one from Romesdal, Denmark. Our master was made by open casting into a soapstone mould (based on a viking age find). The rough hammer shaped was then beaten until flat, and the design was then punched in. The original would have been made in a similar way.
 
Gilding, or gold plating, was carried out on many jewellery items in the Viking age, using the mercury gilding process. This piece has a 1micron thick layer of gold, plated over pewter, to give an attractive representation of what some of these Viking age pieces may have looked like when they were first made.
 
It is cast in lead free pewter in Scotland, then gold plated, and comes with a length of black cord.
 
Made and handled by Asgard