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Sword Mistaken For Replica Is Actually An Ancient 3,000-Year-Old Weapon
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| 24 January 2023
| Carly Cassella
Posted on 01/25/2023 10:50:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: central_va
"If the tiles in the background are 12 x 12 then I estimate the total length to be a little under 3 feet."
You are correct. Quote from a Yahoo article on the subject:
"The 3-foot-long (91 centimeters) bronze sword had been in storage since the museum acquired the weapon in the 1930s..."
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posted on
01/26/2023 12:22:10 PM PST
by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: Pontiac
In the bronze age? Steel was not present.
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posted on
01/26/2023 3:17:08 PM PST
by
GingisK
To: Pontiac
I think it’s more the case that an iron sword is more likely to be poorly made, particularly at a time when the were both in use.
To: GingisK
We are talking about the Medieval Period not the Bronze Age.
The museum people thought the sword was produced in the Medieval Period or later as a reproduction.
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posted on
01/27/2023 6:06:04 AM PST
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Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spiritIq)
To: hopespringseternal
My understanding is that Steel was the primary material for edged weapons in the Medieval period and that bronze was totally supplanted by iron/steel.
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posted on
01/27/2023 6:14:43 AM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spiritIq)
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
01/27/2023 6:41:58 AM PST
by
wafflehouse
("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
To: Pontiac
Oh, absolutely by the medieval period “steel” of pretty variable quality had entirely replaced bronze. And probably most blacksmiths probably knew more or less how to do it. If you were lucky steel was what you got. But if your blacksmith wasn’t very good you might wind up with a sword that was worse than bronze.
And that was definitely the case at the transition between the bronze age and iron age.
To: Pontiac
Iron swords were horrible. Even with the advent of cruder steels, bronze took a long time to be replaced. It was sharper, less brittle, and could be harder than the available iron, and could be repaired much more easily.
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posted on
01/29/2023 1:50:12 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: RoosterRedux
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02/10/2023 7:00:38 AM PST
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wafflehouse
("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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