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Dan Howard
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"Embarrassing" is a good word. "Pathetic" is another.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen and Sword Books
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Tyler C.
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Tyler C.
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If you haven't already seen this one it's well worth a look. A Viking period seax with an intact carved handle posted by scholagladiatoria. It's beautiful! See the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Khsxb_wezQ
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Tim Lison
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That seax grip is GREAT!!! Amazing that it survived so well. Also really cool to see the shape and carving on it. Tremendous!
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Chad Arnow
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I know what 90% of sax grips are about to look like.  But seriously, it’s a cool find.
ChadA
http://chadarnow.com/
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Tyler C.
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| Chad Arnow wrote: | | I know what 90% of sax grips are about to look like. But seriously, it’s a cool find. |
You got that right  . This find will change the shape of seax reproductions from now on I imagine.
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Craig Johnson
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| Posted: Tue 14 Sep, 2021 4:08 am Post subject: I thought the same thing |
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| Chad Arnow wrote: | | I know what 90% of sax grips are about to look like. But seriously, it’s a cool find. |
Ha, I thought the same thing Chad. Its one of the elements of studying these things that appeals to me. The way a new find stretches what we think could happen at any given time. It also illustrates how important the context of the find is. Humans have been coming up with knife designs for almost their entire materials working experience. Its tough to come up with something new. Here is another example from the Secrets of the Ice group. Little context but possibly early enough to mess with some folks ideas about what is "period " for construction styles.
Knife in the glacier
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Craig Johnson
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Pretty amazing gold hoard found in Denmark. Of course guy who found it had just started detecting. Seems to be the case so often. I wonder if its the fact they start where they are able close to them as opposed to trying to find a spot that seems to be important, so they look where others say nah nothing going to be there.
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Iagoba Ferreira
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Blaz Berlec
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Anthony Clipsom
Location: YORKSHIRE, UK Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Craig Johnson
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| Posted: Tue 02 Nov, 2021 3:47 am Post subject: Roman battlefield found in Switzerland |
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This is a nice find and the dagger looks quite nice. The survival is quite amazing if it was material left on the surface. Let's hope the University can get the funding to follow up the finds with a dig and conservation of the finds.
Roman Battlefield in Switzerland
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Jeremy V. Krause
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That's a good one.
A lot more impressive than the "Crusader sword" covered in barnacles.
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Anthony Clipsom
Location: YORKSHIRE, UK Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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| Jeremy V. Krause wrote: | That's a good one.
A lot more impressive than the "Crusader sword" covered in barnacles. |
Conservation helps, of course
Anthony Clipsom
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Arne G.
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| Anthony Clipsom wrote: | | Jeremy V. Krause wrote: | That's a good one.
A lot more impressive than the "Crusader sword" covered in barnacles. |
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Exactly - give them a chance to clean off several centuries of encrustation before passing final judgement on the sword! I for one am very curious to see what comes out. My money is that it will turn out to be a Euro sword from that time period, though only time will tell.
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Craig Johnson
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| Posted: Thu 09 Dec, 2021 1:04 pm Post subject: Viking Sword from Orkney find |
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This piece shows a very nice pattern on the hilt in the xray. Sadly they mention how heavy it must be.
Orkney Sword - BBC
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Iagoba Ferreira
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Glen A Cleeton
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A Aron
Location: Oregon, USA Joined: 19 Sep 2019
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I'm very suspicious of the authenticity of that German sword due to the lack of a crust of blue/green patina on the bronze on an allegedly 1400BC-1300BC artifact. Greek bronze statues and armor from much later in time 600BC to 300BC are always covered in a thick patina when first excavated. Also, doesn't that German sword's design and hilt look like something out of a BUDK catalog or Conan the barbarian film? I have not seen any swords from any ancient cultures (Mycenaean, Egyptian, Mesopotaminan, Chinese) that look similar.
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Anthony Clipsom
Location: YORKSHIRE, UK Joined: 27 Jul 2009
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Well, the grave looks genuine enough, so we'd have to suggest the Bavarian State Archaeology team inserted a prepared fake or that someone snuck in and planted it and they didn't notice the disturbance during excavation. Not impossible but perhaps unlikely?
Anthony Clipsom
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This is a 