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

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

[ZOOKER]

The Titanic is falling to pieces, but this sword, which has been submerged ten times as long, is "fully intact"?
Verily, I say there is some sort of magick here...

[dfwgator]

Listen. 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.

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the dendrochronology keyword:

• Modern science reveals ancient secret in Japanese literature [2020]
• Dendrochronological evidence for long-distance timber trading in the Roman Empire [2019]
• New Technique Provides Accurate Dating of Ancient Skeletons [2018]
• Study: Radiocarbon Dating Inaccurate in the Holy Land [2018]
• Unusual climate during Roman times plunged Eurasia into hunger and disease [2018]
• Did Abraham Lincoln sleep here? [2018]
• Over A Thousand Years Ago, The Sun Exploded -- And Changed Life On Earth Forever [2015]
• 777-Year-Old Tree Is a Babe in Muir Woods (Tallest Tree AT Muir Woods Not 1500 Yrs Old, Study Shows) [2015]
• Origins of Mysterious World Trade Center Ship Revealed [2014]
• Greek Island of Santorini Volcano Erupted in 16th Century [2014]
• Solar proton event seen in paleo records (Carbon 14 in Tree Rings) [2013]
• Researcher points to Sun as likely source of eighth-century 'Charlemagne event' [2012]
• Wet climate may have fueled Mongol invasion [2012]
• Sky 'Crucifix' in Ancient Text May Be Mystery-Solving Supernova [2012]
• Mysterious radiation burst recorded in tree rings [2012]
• UA scientists find evidence of Roman period megadrought (in US, not Rome) [2011]
• Fall of Rome Recorded in Trees [2011]
• Ancient Tree (Almost) Older Than Dirt [ 5,000 to 30,000 years old ] [2009]
• Proof Global Warming has Been Fraud All Along? [2009]
• How Old Tree Rings And Ancient Wood Are Helping Rewrite History [2007]
• Ancient Volcano, Seeds And Treerings, Suggest Rewriting Late Bronze Age Mediterranean History (More) [2006]
• Olive branch solves a Bronze Age mystery [2006]
• ARCHAEOLOGY: New Carbon Dates Support Revised History of Ancient Mediterranean [2006]
• Satellites Pinpoint Stands of Old Trees [2002]
• Archaeologists Rewrite Timeline Of Bronze And Iron Ages, Alphabet [2001]

[_longranger81]

Well I’m no doctor, but it sure looks to me like the lady in that x-ray may have cancer of the clitoris...

Oh...
Oh.

Sorry, my bad.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3876830/posts?page=12#12

[dfwgator]

Ok, I have to eat dinner sometime, LOL, I can’t always be first.

[umgud]

Really kewl, thanks.

[centurion316]

Suggests that it and the other finds might be votive offerings.

[SunkenCiv]

If you drop the knife, leave it, some archaeologist will find in a thousand years from now.

[FreedomPoster]

I came here for THIS!

We actually saw it at a COVID pop-up drive-in movie about a month ago. Wife knew most of the memes but had never seen it, it was her pick.

Conclusion: It’s a guy flick, but she wasn’t sorry she finally watched it.

[ExGeeEye]

I was just reading about Titanic today.

Her worst attacker, other than 108 years in a saltwater environment, is a microorganism that eats iron and craps rust. The "rusticles" (called so by Dr. Ballard, who found her) are basically amoeba poop from these critters.

Brass and other nonferrous inorganics are actually in pretty good shape, where they weren't smashed by the ship hitting the bottom. I wouldn't mind a crack at some of the electric light fixtures still hanging around in there.

[SunkenCiv]

Those will have been down there a while longer.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[SunkenCiv]

"...the one in the middle looks like Willie Nelson..."

[marktwain]

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).

No one is talking about radiocarbon dating. We are talking about dating by treerings.

The 913 and 914 dates are for the wood used in the bridge.

The 980 date is for wood used in the shore fortification.

The author makes it clear the year is for the date the tree was cut down.

The artifact could have been made later.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! The Titanic has decayed visibly since its rediscovery due to the digestion. The non-iron components in the iron (impurities introduced for metallurgical reasons) turned out to be the enabling factor for the digestion. In perhaps 50 years it'll just be a decaying pile of junk on the seafloor.

[marktwain]

Fresh water low oxygen zone vs. salt water.

A very large difference, indeed.

[dsc]

Did they find the moistened bint?

[twyn1]

These are the times I wish FR had a like button! Monty Python for the win!

[dangus]

I’m kinda glad I didn’t find it. I know it’s no basis for a legitimate government, but there’s a part of me that would never quit feeling like I should be king.