Posted on 10/12/2021 6:55:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A Bronze Age sword dating back as far as 1700 B.C. was discovered broken in items in Finland this previous summer season by a person utilizing a metallic detector in his mother and father’s again the backyard...
Matti Rintamaa had only purchased his first metal detector two weeks before the sword discovery. He discovered a few tiny bits of metal around two inches long... Then he discovered a larger piece and showed a picture of it to a metal-detecting buddy who was more experienced.
The National Board of Antiquities of Finland was contacted, and an archeologist was dispatched to the site, where further fragments of the sword were discovered.
The Satakunta Museum mentioned in an announcement that such discoveries are very uncommon as “lower than 200 Bronze Age bronze objects” have been present in Finland. “A complete of about 25 swords or daggers belonging to the interval have been discovered, two of which have been present in Panella,”...
Archeologists believe the sword was moved from its original location during construction work.
Leena Koivisto, an archaeologist of the Satakunta Museum, agrees with this view, “We believe that the sword was a stray find. It was probably originally placed in shallow water. As the sea gradually retreated, the former bay changed to marshland and finally into the field. The sword was covered with layers of peat,” she said.
The Nordic Bronze Age lasted from 1700 B.C. to 500 B.C. The scarcity of information about this period in the region has led scientists to agree that the belief system will be the same as Ancient Greece.
The vaguely spirals on the sword are thought to represent the sun. The cult of the sun was an important part of the Scandinavian Bronze Age religion.
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It will be for sale on Varusteleka.com by next week.
CC
Condition is everything, you know.
The dad has a freaky creepy laugh.
They’re shysters.
That’s right.
Conan broke his sword.
“They’re shysters”
If There’s any truth to the show you bet they are.
I quit watching that years ago.
Rather watch American pickers now that the little fat guy with the beard is gone.
The Israelites would have just started their 400 year Egyptian captivity around the time of this sword
You didn’t like *Oilcan* Frank?
“You didn’t like *Oilcan* Frank?”
Ha! That dude would gip his grandma outta .25 cent if he thought he could get away with it.
Hi.
“Bronze Age sword dating back as far as 1700 B.C. was discovered broken in items in Finland this previous summer season by a person utilizing a metallic detector in his mother and father’s again the backyard...”
I apologize, I don’t speak Finnish.
Hell of a sentence.
5.56mm
It was probably originally placed in shallow water. As the sea gradually retreated, the former bay changed to marshland and finally into the field.Good thing they found it before the ice melts and covers it in water again!
edwinland posted a link to a more coherent translation.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4002895/posts?page=7#7
Yup. They probably are a more recent coat of paint, replacing the earlier Indo-European layers, who'd replaced an even earlier group or groups.
They’d started their captivity circa 1850 BC.
He was trying to solve the riddle of the bronze. /rimshot
(Meanwhile Rick is dialing up his buddy -- a elderly bronze age warrior -- who has been looking for a good period bronze sword.)
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.
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