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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Some nice bronze age items recovered from an area that was probably a freshwater loch.

Broken Swords and Spears

The Battlefield of Kessel has been discovered.

In 55 BC. Caesar attacked two German tribes (Usipetes and the Tencteri) and subsequently 'genocided' them. Among the finds were swords, spearheads and a helmet. No pictures have been realized so far.

http://www.vu.nl/nl/nieuws-agenda/nieuws/2015...gebied.asp

This is very cool

Lost Alexandria Sword found.

Roman sword found in North America???

Looks like a pretty weird "Roman" sword to me, what do you guys think?

Ugh. Sorry to sully a great thread with such a terrible link. I have been seeing this a lot in my FB thread. Guess it thinks I like swords or something. :lol:

Anyhow, I thought there might be an outside chance it was some 19th century thing, but wow, I had no idea it was at Walmart.

For those interested and able to read Danish.

Top 10 Danish archaeological finds from 2015.
Source: http://www.kulturstyrelsen.dk/kulturarv/forti...fund-2015/

Resume:
1) Late Neolithic long house from Vinge: 45,5 m long! [~2000 BC]
2) Earliest found Danish vine grapes from the Viking Age at the Tissø complex.
Had Tissø its own wine production as the climate was quite warm back then?!
3) Lead amulet from the middle ages (1250-1350) calling on the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and all the Saints to protect God's servant Margareta against elf-men (!) elf-women (!) and demons from harming her eyes and other limbs.
4) Coastal dwelling at Orehoved, that was suddenly flooded by increasing sea level ~6000 BC. Means that tons of daily objects were hastily abandoned, like a half-finished drilling through a big lump of amber (see picture).
5) Perfect Frankish wine jar found in Ribe from 700's AD. [picture of it in situ]
6) Chapel of King Svend III Grathe [he was killed in the battle of Grathe Hede in 1157].
7) Viking silver treasure put down in the ground 950-1000 AD at Lille Karleby.
Besides the objects shown in the pictures it also contained a jewelry set comprised of 300 pieces of glass beads, amber, quartz and silver; 53 brooches of bronze or silver and 18 coins (Islamic and Western).
8) Preserved fields close to Hirtshals covered by sand in around 1700 AD and thus hasn't been touched since. So preserved plow marks and ditches can be observed.
Use of the area for farming starts from the Iron age.
9) Complete Iron Age society found at Skødstrup from around the Birth of Christ. It includes a burial-ground, a sacrificial bog, a "row-village" with paved central road (!) and spread out farms. Many dog-sacrifices have taken place (se picture) in the bog, but a woman in her 20's were also found.
This is the most outstanding find this year and the area will continue to be researched.
10) Bronze Axes from Boest. I created a thread about them here
http://myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=32061&highlight=

First of, greatlist Neil thanks for sharing there are some wonderful things on that list.


Here is one I just came across and highlights one of my pet peeves about classifications of things. This is described as a bronze age "rapier" which I know is a hold over from the 19th C. experts assigning the concept to the bronze sword blades found but today I would argue that calling it a bronze thrusting sword or even dagger would be more enlightening then confusing it to the rapier term which carries the connotation of a complex hilt with it. I realize I am probably just being picky, but there is so much poor info in the big wide sword world, that I hate to contribute to confusion when terms like this get used, even if the academics of the past are the source.

Sword found in Lanarkshire