This one´s not about weapons being unearthed but it's about a skeleton found inside a tomb dating from Alexander the Great's time in Amphipolis.

Amphipolis Skeleton

http://www.sax.nu/international/681255/Archae...in_Dalfsen

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Students and alumni of Saxion’s Archaeology course made a 5000-year-old top discovery in Dalfsen. They did this together with other archaeologists from the State University of Groningen. It concerns a complete burial ground from the Stone Age. The cemetery is the largest in northwest Europe and a unique find for the Netherlands. As many as 121 funnel-beakers with spectacular grave gifts and even an earthen monument from the time of the Hunebed (megalith tomb) builders were uncovered.

And just today another grave turned up near the one above.

http://www.ouderenjournaal.nl/home/2015/06/25...-gevonden/

Merovingian grave found.

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The graves that are now found are rich with grave goods that the dead could use in the afterlife. The grave of a man contains an iron kettle, a glass water bottle, an ax and a sword with inlaid handle. In a woman's tomb goods found included four cloak pins and a necklace of amber. The fragile finds are transferred to a laboratory where they are cleaned, preserved and studied.

And yet another discovery.

http://www.nu.nl/wetenschap/4075222/restanten...enter.html

Part of a (seagoing)ship wreck from around 1500 found near Deventer.

As both of these finds were just from today no pictures have been published yet.

Just published - a sword that was discovered in 2011 in a Norwegian grave, dating to around 1030 AD. Interesting - it has some Christian symbols on the pommel. 94 cm overall length

http://archaeology.org/news/3482-150714-norway-viking-sword

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?Ite...ureCode=en

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Awesome! I like it more than the famous Finnish one!

Peter Johnsson mentions this sword on his Facebook Page - and says he wants to make it. I wonder if it might end up as an Albion NG or Museum Line piece?

Below is another view of the hilt. The hand holding the cross is at the top of the pommel - the hand faces down the hilt, and you can see the thumb - the cross is at right angle to the hand. It took me awhile to see it.

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It can now also with DNA studies be established with a high degree of certainty, that a massive population turnover happened in Northern Europe in the earliest Bronze Age (2000 BC).

Nature News: http://www.nature.com/news/dna-data-explosion...ge-1.17723

The Corded Ware culture are beside culturally- and linguistically- now also certainly genetically related with the Yamnaya Culture north of the Black Sea. So the long heated discussion whether cultural spreading are because of "movements of ideas" OR "movement of people".
In this instance it seems clearly a Movement of People causes the cultural change:
So the "Nordic Bronze Age" is the influx of a Proto-Indo-European group, evolving later into Germanic Languages and the ancestors of the Iron-Viking Age Scandinavians.

It does also tentatively support the idea - that inside the Indo-European Linguistic tree - Germanic and Balto-Slavic might be closer related than Germanic is to Italo-Celtic (though in the later Iron age Celtic and Germanic did share a lot of loaned words, but perhaps because if proximity).

Also explains why Scandinavians today have one of the highest rates of lactose tolerances in the world (whereas the Neolithic people living before the Indo-Europeans were generally lactose intolerant - for instance Ötzi).

Corded Ware culture is an ethnic Indo-European Culture spreading and displacing other people........
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A recent Bronze Age find (thus Indo-European) from Denmark (Boeslunde) of 2000 pure gold spirals could be a fringe from a golden hat, some other equipment or sown into a golden garment for a Solar Highpriest/King in the Late Bronze Age (900-700 BC).
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-33463497

Bronze Age Golden Hats from Central Europe [that is probably why in folklore "wizards" have high hats].
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How do we know the burial is pagan? The other grave mentioned is obviously christian as it says among other things "God is one".

The weapons were found near, but outside of the coffin - sword on one side, axe on the other. I wonder if that is significant. It could be that this guy was a Christian AND a pagan. Correct me if I'm wrong, but It wasn't unusual for a Norseman at this time to have a foot in both camps.

Here is a BBC article on the possible find of another one of Henry's ships from the hundred years war.

Henry V's ship Holigost

There are few details and sounds like they need to do some excavation prior to any absolute id, but still an interesting find.

Craig

Sword found a lover of history when searching in and around Jerzwałdu.
According to archaeologists, this may be - unique in the lands of ancient Balts - type sword Spath from the late Roman period. The discovery already went to the Museum of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.
During the archaeological excavations carried out so far between lower Vistula and the Niemen, it was discovered only a few copies of such weapons - including the cemetery kurhanowym the Suwalki and the tomb of a warrior on the peninsula of Sambia.
When you conducted this summer by the Museum of Warmia and Mazury
k archaeological expedition. Jerzwałdu excavated nearly a thousand objects,
including several shoes, or sword scabbard fittings - such a large collection of
type has so far no museum in Poland. They also found the grave of incinerator
X-XI century. Archaeologists speculate that discovered the unique world
Western Balts trade settlement associated with the legendary Truso - Viking
port, which existed from the eighth to the eleventh century at the mouth of the Vistula.

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http://www.tvn24.pl/pomorze,42/milosnik-histo...84470.html

Here is an article about a good day hiking :)

Viking Sword Found

Craig

a Bronze Age Mycenaean tomb dating from 1500 BC has been found in SW Greece at Pylos. Weapons include a bronze sword and dagger.

http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_f..._tomb.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/science/a-w....html?_r=0

Here is a photo of that bronze sword hilt from the Pylos grave. It looks like a Type G Horn sword.

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