Rare medieval sword and artefacts from first Piast Dynasty found fully intact at bottom of lake

The First News ^ | August 11, 2020 | Joanna Jasinska

[SunkenCiv]

• The sword was decorated with a Jerusalem cross visible on the x-ray picture. Jakub Kaczmarczyk/PAP
• Archaeology divers also found other artefacts dating back to the first Piast dynasty. umk.pl
• Professor Andrzej Pydyn, head of the Center for Underwater Archeology in Torun described the find as "spectacular" saying the sword was the first to be found in 20 years. Jakub Kaczmarczyk/PAP
• The finds date back to the times of Duke Mieszko I. Public domain

[Delta 21]

Boat accidents are nothing new.

[SunkenCiv]

I've spent the week as a bone-idle bum, finally got this stuff caught up.

[rktman]

Okay, who polluted the lake? Fess up.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The guy who lost the sword mussed have been Piast.

[TFG]

Immediately thought of that line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[dljordan]

“The guy who lost the sword mussed have been Piast.”

Oh my. Face palm. :)

[Rurudyne]

Sword registration and buy backs ... so it took a while before people understood that they were only to claim it had fallen overboard....

[dp0622]

Lol

[marktwain]

Dendrochronology is an accurate dating method. It is good to within a year.

[BenLurkin]

[ClearCase_guy]

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

[Covenantor]

....The notable 10th-century sword and axe couldn’t belong to a regular warrior and point to people of importance travelling to Ostrów Lednicki.

And yet there it was....in the lake....under the bridge...sounds like something a golfer would do after a really bad stroke.

[SunkenCiv]

I didn't know you were *called* Dennis.

[SunkenCiv]

Some moistened bink.

[CJ Wolf]

The first Freeper canoeing accident.

[SunkenCiv]

Regarding ddchr accuracy, a wiggle match can nail down a pretty accurate date, but in practice artifacts can’t be dated that accurately (one year).

More about dendrochronology:

http://www.pbs.org/time-team/experience-archaeology/dendrochronology/

As long as we’re on RC dating, this always bugs me when it appears:

“The wood used for its construction was cut down in the years 913 and 914..”

“The tree was cut down in 980, during the reign of Duke Mieszko I, the first documented ruler of Poland.”

Unless bark is present, the radiocarbon date doesn’t and can’t show anything of the kind (apart from an unverifiable coincidence).

[Revel]

They finally found Excalibur. Give it to Trump.

[Tailback]

I believe the term used was “Watery Tarts”.

[Spaceman49]

I see what you did there .. .