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Roger Hooper
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Craig Johnson
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Craig Johnson
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Posted: Mon 08 Oct, 2018 6:11 am Post subject: Better pics |
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Here is some new video, with much better detail and angles from NBC. Obviously blade is still in scabbard with quite a bit of the covering remaining. Will be interesting to see how this comes through preservation and what the details will show.
Edit fixed link to go to video that deals with sword find, but they edited out the closeups of the sword. Did anyone keep a copy?
Better video of Sword
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Michael A. H.
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Craig Johnson
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Posted: Tue 16 Oct, 2018 10:05 am Post subject: Re: New Norwegian boat burial site |
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I just saw this as well Michael it does look very promising with its context and if it has not been messed with could be very interesting find. Not sure when they would look at a dig of such a find, its one of those big projects.
Here is the NatGeo article not as much info as The Guardian though.
added 10/18
CNN has a video with more visuals and layout of site depicted here
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Craig Johnson
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Posted: Wed 21 Nov, 2018 11:27 am Post subject: Viking Sword found in Antalya province. |
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I find this incredibly interesting as it is so rare to find material surviving artifacts from the Nordic cultures in the places like Turkey even though their participation in the historical period is well known. Not to mention the article is pretty well written for a sword find article, Usually they spend most of the article taking about some misinformation or King Arthur here its straight forward and well stated.
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Iagoba Ferreira
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J.D. Crawford
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Posted: Tue 08 Jan, 2019 12:31 pm Post subject: Re: Norse acitivity in the new world |
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Mark Lewis wrote: | Niels Just Rasmussen wrote: | A reason is off course that probably a lot of fakes had been attempted, but each find should be looked in itself and with fresh eyes. The most famous case of fake-or-not is the Kensington stone which most people believe was probably made by the Swedish guy, who found the stone. |
There is also the case of the Beardmore relics... probably genuine artifacts, but planted by their "discoverer". I have seen these on display in the Royal Ontario Museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beardmore_Relics
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I just came across this article about the Beardmore case. Its an interesting read:
https://torontoist.com/2014/11/historicist-an-authentic-viking-hoax/
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Posted: Fri 11 Jan, 2019 2:20 am Post subject: |
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A wonderful find. Similar to a 13th Islamic example from the Archaeological Museum of Seville.
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Craig Johnson
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Posted: Sat 12 Jan, 2019 11:36 am Post subject: Copper Axes |
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Thats a very nice sword Ian thanks for posting it,
Just saw this pop up but it is supposedly already on display so it may have been mentioned earlier.
Copper Axe find Bulgaria
Cool stuff, obviously a major production stock or very rich patron.
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Iain Norman
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Posted: Mon 14 Jan, 2019 1:27 am Post subject: Re: Copper Axes |
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Craig Johnson wrote: | Thats a very nice sword Ian thanks for posting it,
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Thanks Craig, you might enjoy this example from the Alava arms museum as well. 12th century and one of the best surviving examples I know of.
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Roger Hooper
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Craig Johnson
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Kai Lawson
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Posted: Fri 08 Feb, 2019 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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That sword is fantastic. The hilt furniture looks like it could be from the early 14th century, but the blade looks to my untrained eye to be something like a Geibig 5/9/13. Overall it looks to me like the sword is earlier than the 14th century. I could not really find any analogies on manuscriptminiatures.com, nor on effigiesandbrasses.com, though my search as admittedly not really in depth. Does the piece look older to anyone else?
"And they crossed swords."
--William Goldman, alias S. Morgenstern
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Niels Just Rasmussen
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Posted: Sun 10 Feb, 2019 7:19 am Post subject: |
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Kai Lawson wrote: | That sword is fantastic. The hilt furniture looks like it could be from the early 14th century, but the blade looks to my untrained eye to be something like a Geibig 5/9/13. Overall it looks to me like the sword is earlier than the 14th century. I could not really find any analogies on manuscriptminiatures.com, nor on effigiesandbrasses.com, though my search as admittedly not really in depth. Does the piece look older to anyone else? |
Actually you are probably correct since the Danish reports actually says the layers in which it was found fitted with a ~1300 AD date [not broadly 14th century].
They speculate it is when the Danish Marsk [marshall] - Stig Andersen (Hvide) - had been accused for being behind the killing of King Erik Klipping in Finderup Barn he fled to Norway and became allied with King Erik II Magnusson "Priesthater".
In 1289 they together launched an attack on Aalborg.
Furthermore from the preliminary cleaning it seems the sword contains an inscription [kobber or brass].
Pictures and videos: https://da-dk.facebook.com/Arkaeologi/
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Roger Hooper
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Niels Just Rasmussen
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Posted: Tue 12 Feb, 2019 4:34 am Post subject: |
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Amazing finds and what craftsmanship.
Sadly it seems to be a race for archaeologists to recover these kurgan-burials before the looters.
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Craig Johnson
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Posted: Mon 27 May, 2019 4:53 pm Post subject: Roman Army Camp in Scotland |
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This is interesting, Roman army is pretty impressive in what they achieved.
Roman Army camp found in Scotland
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Craig Johnson
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Posted: Mon 03 Jun, 2019 11:47 am Post subject: Lewis Chessman |
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Found but not in the usual way for this thread :-) These pieces are truly amazing if you get a chance to see them in person do so.
Lewis chessman found
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Image courtesy of the BBC
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Roger Hooper
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