Asgard

Asgard are makers of re-productions of archaeological finds of the Viking Age in pewter, bronze, and
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04/09/2026

AI art? No thanks!

All of our designs are hand made by humans.

From the masters used to mould our jewellery, which are carved, chased, engraved, or wrought using ancient techniques. To the hand drawn designs that adorn our clothing, everything we do is based on archaeological finds, and historical designs.

And it is all done by us, here, on the west coast of Scotland.

Real art, made by humans, for humans.

02/09/2026

++++++Announcement++++++

After much thought and deliberation, we have decided that Asgard will not be trading in Largs this coming weekend.

We normally look forward to the Largs Viking Festival. We have been attending, on and off, for over 20 years. But this year, after a lot of messing around and wasted time, our attendance had been reduced to just one day: this coming Saturday. This would involve setting up our big trading tent in the morning, trading for a full day, and then taking it all down in the evening.

At the end of a very busy summer, we just can’t face doing this. We normally set this stall up for 2 or 3 days at a time, like we did last year, but that wasn’t even an option this year.

We have explored other options for being in Largs this weekend, none of which would give our customers the choice, or experience they deserve.

We apologise if you were hoping to see us this weekend, but we are going to have a weekend off, and get back to processing orders and working on new designs next week.

Local customers will be able to find us at various markets in the area over the coming months, so watch out for details. And, of course, our website is always open.

21/08/2026

We have been back in the workshop after our big summer adventure for over a week now. And we have been working on a backlog of orders. Apologies if you are waiting on anything, there have been supply issues causing delays too!
So we haven't had time to say anything much about our time at the Lochgilphead Celtic and Pictish Festival, and Bloodstock. We will have more posts on these. But for now here's a selection of 'what we did on our holidays' type pictures from a pretty epic couple of weeks. 😁

09/08/2026

Well, we are having an awesome time at Bloodstock. Our absolute highlight so far was seeing our old friends, Sellsword, who played the Sophie Lancaster stage yesterday. 😁
We have known these guys since the very early days of the band, booked them a few times, and squeezed in to packed out small venues to see them more times than we can remember! 😂
We were so chuffed to see them play a big festival stage. It was an awesome show, and we're sure more will follow. 😁

Now we are on the final day of Bloodstock, so if you are here, get down and say hi. 😁

01/08/2026

That's us all set up and open at the Lochgilphead Pictish and Celtic Festival!

The forge is lit, so come along and watch Jim casting.

We've also got a bunch of new, not on the website yet brooches on the stall.

We're open until 4pm today, and we'll be doing it all again tomorrow.

28/07/2026

As we gear up for the Lochgilphead Celtic and Pictish festival, Jim has been pulling some off our newer designs together, along with a couple of very old ones, and noticed that we have something of an Iron Age collection developing!

We have a few reproduction pieces, in hand cast bronze. And a few 'inspired by' pieces, in pewter.

Most of these aren't even on the website yet, so you will have to find us at an event over the next couple of weeks to get your hands on them. 😁

25/07/2026

This time next week we will be at the Lochgilphead Celtic and Pictish Festival, where Jim will be demonstrating early mediaeval bronze and silver casting.
So we are nearly ready for this, as the moulds, and some new crucibles of a type Jim hasn't used (or made!) before all need time to dry out thoroughly before they can be fired in the hearth, and used for melting and casting at temperatures around 1000°C. If you want to see what is going to come out of those moulds (hopefully!) get yourself down to Lochgilphead on Saturday 1st August, and Sunday 2nd August. see you there. 😁

10/07/2026

Catch us this Saturday, at the Distillery Market, Stafford Street, Oban. The market is on from 10 til 4, and is part of the Oban Festival of the Sea, so there will be plenty to see and do around the town. We're really looking forward to it! see you there! 😁

08/07/2026

Stay cool with our range of Viking and Pictish sleeveless t-shirts ❄

30/06/2026

The Parkhill Pictish Chain.

June has been an incredibly busy month! We have been out at events, and working on several exciting projects.

This is the first of those that we can talk about.

Earlier this year we were approached by Aberdeenshire Museums Service to produce several of our Pictish pieces for a new handling collection that will be used to promote a new museum in Aberdeenshire. Particularly our large Pictish chains.

We have been producing a Pictish style chain, cast in pewter, for about 16 years. Indeed, Jim made the master for the first clasp link before even seeing the originals in the NMS In Edinburgh.

What we never had before was the dimensions of the original chain links or the connecting clasps. So while we knew that our reproduction was a little small, we couldn't improve on this.

However this new reproduction needed to be the same size as the original, so with the kind assistance of Martin Goldberg, of National Museums Scotland, we now have detailed measurements of the chain from Parkhill, Aberdeenshire, and a shiny new, actual size, reproduction!

The links for the majority of the chain were about the same size as the links for our existing chain - within 1mm of the originals, not bad given that Jim originally estimated their size!

What threw Jim off regarding the size of the clasp links is the fact that the terminals of the chain are larger links, as they are designed to accommodate the clasp link, which really is big! At 4.5cm across, the Parkhill chain clasp link is a substantial piece of metal on its own. When added to such a large chain, this is a piece of jewellery that oozes power.

Given that the original chains were made of silver, we then start to think about who actually wore them, and the Parkhill chain is a little short. So it might have only fitted a more slender neck. However there are obviously some links missing from the original find, which we have added into the reproduction, so it will fasten.

We are now working on pricing up this new version of the Pictish chain, and are thinking about making it available in different sizes, and maybe in the original configuration of the find, so watch this space! But do let us know if you have a preference. We’d be happy to look at doing them in silver too! 😁

Address

15 Highland Avenue
Dunoon
PA238QZ

Website

http://www.asgard.scot/

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