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"Barbarian" assemblage of weapons discovered in Hrubieszów State Forests
Heritage Daily ^ | January 19, 2024 | Mark Milligan

Posted on 01/31/2024 8:44:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv

The Lublin Provincial Monuments Conservator has announced the discovery of an assemblage of "Barbarian" weaponry in the State Forests in the Hrubieszów region of Poland. According to the announcement, the assemblage dates to the Roman period and may be associated with the Przeworsk culture, an Iron Age people that emerged in the upper Oder and Vistula basins during the 3rd century BC, and continued to inhabit central and southern Poland until the 5th century AD.

The culture's decline in the late 5th century coincides with the invasion of the Huns and the social crisis that occurred as a result of the collapse of the Roman world.

Most of the metal objects are made from corroded iron and were found at one discovery site in a shallow context. Archaeologists have so far identified two iron battle axes, two iron chisels, a dozen iron spear heads, and one blade axe likely used in carpentry.

"The number of artefacts, their nature, method of deposit, and state of their preservation, exclude the possibility of a cemetery or a single burial, as no bones or fragments of pottery were found to indicate a grave pit", said the Lublin Provincial Monuments Conservator on social media.

"We are most likely dealing with weapons used by barbaric tribes during the Roman period", also noting that previous excavations in the vicinity have uncovered a Przeworsk warrior burial at Horodło.

Alternative hypotheses propose a potential connection of the assemblage with Gothic cultures or the Vandals. However, without a thorough investigation, the precise nature of the discovery and its chronological and cultural affiliation remains speculative at present.

Archaeologists plan to return to the discovery site in Spring to conduct a thorough archaeological inspection.

(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; ironage; poland; przeworskculture; romanempire
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Looks like they couldn’t get their hands on them when they really needed them, anyway.


21 posted on 01/31/2024 10:34:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Didn’t somebody say “when you’re burying arms, you should be using them”?


22 posted on 01/31/2024 11:29:20 AM PST by Rinnwald
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To: allendale
The term barbarian is the Latin derivative of how a Roman would describe the speech of the nothern tribes. To the romans their speech sounded like the bleating of sheep. “Ba...Ba...Ba...Ba”

I thought it had something to do with the Romans' being clean-shaven. They equated these tribes with bearded men -- hence, the word "barbe."

I also heard that the word may have originated from Greek, as well. The xenophobic Greeks equated beards with foreigners.

23 posted on 01/31/2024 11:41:15 AM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: AAABEST

Brings to mind that Led Zep song...”Whole Lotta Love”.


24 posted on 01/31/2024 12:42:47 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: SunkenCiv
Get them replaced for free.


25 posted on 01/31/2024 3:27:24 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Rinnwald

When seconds count, your buried weapons are only minutes away...


26 posted on 01/31/2024 3:33:30 PM PST by Burma Jones
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To: SunkenCiv

“ Looks like they couldn’t get their hands on them when they really needed them, anyway.”

They had government mandated spear locks attached and someone lost the key.


27 posted on 01/31/2024 4:35:57 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

lol


28 posted on 01/31/2024 8:04:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: MoochPooch; allendale
allendale The term barbarian is the Latin derivative of how a Roman would describe the speech of the nothern tribes. To the romans their speech sounded like the bleating of sheep. “Ba...Ba...Ba...Ba”

One point wrong, Allen -- The English term “barbarian” is derived from the Greek barbaros, Latinized as barbarus.

The rest of what you wrote is correct

Moochpooch, it had nothing to be done with beards - the Greeks were big on their beards, it was a Latin thing to go clean-shaven (as then when you fought, your opponent had nothing to grab on)

This is similar to the Polish (and to a large extent Slavic) terms:

for Germans - Niemcy - basically from "mute" i.e. people who can't speak clearly

Wloch - Italians - the origin is from the German term Wallach meaning Italic speaking non-German and was the term for the Britons (hence Wales/Welsh), French (Wallons/Wallonia), Romanians (Vlachs, Wallachia)

29 posted on 02/01/2024 3:10:27 AM PST by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: mad_as_he$$

No, that’s what we called them. That is the name we assigned to non-Greco Roman traditions.


30 posted on 02/01/2024 2:15:52 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: moovova

More like AC/DC’s Whole Lotta Rosie.


31 posted on 02/01/2024 2:17:22 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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