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David Huggins
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Posted: Tue 13 May, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject: Viking age 'sword' find |
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Hi guys,
Check out this link for a look at a cast pommel and guard recently discovered on Man http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk:80/nwh_gfx_en/ART57124.html
best
Dave
and he who stands and sheds blood with us, shall be as a brother.
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Lawrence Parramore
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Posted: Wed 14 May, 2008 7:46 am Post subject: |
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Very nice,
it would be good to see the other parts too.
Lawrence
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Tim May
Location: Annapolis, MD Joined: 12 Nov 2006
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Posted: Wed 14 May, 2008 8:03 am Post subject: |
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Very Cool! I wish I had Peirce's book on me, but its very reminiscent, if I remember correctly, of one in there that Windlass did a replica of a while back, though a little more Celtic looking in decoration.
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Dan Dickinson
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Posted: Wed 14 May, 2008 8:17 am Post subject: |
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Petersen illustrated a similar type O hilt in his De Norske Vikingsverd
Dan
And maybe I'm just missing it, but what's going on with the cross of their reconstruction?
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