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Kai Lawson
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While I'm not counting out the option for it to be actually medieval, if the boots are indeed leather, the sword, tall boots and rowel spurs make me thing 16th-17th century, not medieval. Still a really cool find though!
"And they crossed swords."
--William Goldman, alias S. Morgenstern
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Paul Hansen
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| Posted: Thu 12 Nov, 2020 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| Craig Johnson wrote: | | Very nice bronze age sword find. Pretty incredible patina on the hilt. These swords are interesting and I am not sure I agree that a few bubbles in the casting dictate it was ceremonial. |
Really nice indeed! And I fully agree with you, making a casting without bubbles is pretty hard. Here at least the surface seems smooth. How many cavities one needs to render a sword unusable, no idea, but I'd guess that then they would show up at the surface as well.
But for some reason some archeologists stick to a "bronze swords are not weapons" theory which, I think, is absolute bollocks...
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Craig Johnson
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| Paul Hansen wrote: | | Craig Johnson wrote: | | Very nice bronze age sword find. Pretty incredible patina on the hilt. These swords are interesting and I am not sure I agree that a few bubbles in the casting dictate it was ceremonial. |
Really nice indeed! And I fully agree with you, making a casting without bubbles is pretty hard. Here at least the surface seems smooth. How many cavities one needs to render a sword unusable, no idea, but I'd guess that then they would show up at the surface as well.
But for some reason some archeologists stick to a "bronze swords are not weapons" theory which, I think, is absolute bollocks... |
I totally agree Paul, these were definitely weapons of status, but weapons.
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Anthony Clipsom
Location: YORKSHIRE, UK Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Fri 13 Nov, 2020 4:11 am Post subject: |
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| Kai Lawson wrote: | | While I'm not counting out the option for it to be actually medieval, if the boots are indeed leather, the sword, tall boots and rowel spurs make me thing 16th-17th century, not medieval. Still a really cool find though! |
The article does say 16th century, which may be considered the late Middle Ages in that part of Lithuania.
Anthony Clipsom
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Iagoba Ferreira
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Craig Johnson
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HI Iagoba
That is very cool. I had not heard of this find either. It has some interesting pieces. I will have to translate some of the descriptions or at least an app will :-) Thanks for sharing.
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Paul Hansen
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| Posted: Sun 03 Jan, 2021 12:57 pm Post subject: Re: Very Cool Find! |
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For some reason neither of those links work for me... 
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