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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.


45 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)
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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.


47 posted on 01/27/2023 4:05:03 PM PST by hopespringseternal
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