Posted on 12/27/2024 3:59:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
To the tax authorities?
What ancient sword?
This Ancient sword?
Family heirloom forever.
Prove me wrong.
So they’re digging up cemeteries? How old does a person’s grave have to be before it becomes an archeological excavation?
Does it say “EXCALIBUR?” That’s the only ancient sword I’m interested in?
So they’re digging up cemeteries?
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This is nothing new.
Kind of makes one think getting cremated and having your ashes scattered somewhere is the way to go.
And yes I’ve seen the Big Lebowski. Windy cliffs aren’t the place to do that. :)
Not that it really matters, I suppose. I’ll be somewhere else. Like the Klingons say in Star Trek, the body is just an empty shell.
Native Americans wouldn’t stand for that.
Striking objects? Like a Mace?
This is a cutting object.
Where’s Slings and Arrows?
True.
Workers have unearthed a tenth-century sword at the bottom of a river in Poland. While the weapon has endured over a thousand years of corrosion, scans show that a “mysterious inscription” survives on its blade.
The discovery occurred last month in the Polish city of Włocławek, where construction crews were dredging the Vistula River. One of the workers, Sławomir Mularski, spotted the sword in a pile of extracted muck, according to Science in Poland’s Tomasz Więcławski. Per Google Translate, Mularski says that his heartbeat quickened as an image of “a Viking wielding a sword” began to take shape in his mind.
Mularski alerted officials with the Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in Toruń (a nearby city), who retrieved and examined the sword. McClatchy’s Aspen Pflughoeft writes that the “rust-covered weapon” featured a “long blade and a pommel that looks almost like a knot.”
The sword looks fairly ordinary at first glance. Weighing in at 2 lbs., 10 ounces (1.2 kilograms) and measuring 38 inches (964 millimeters) long, the weapon is steel, with a double edge and a hilt shaped like a cross. But on one side of the sword is a mysterious inscription, made by gold wire that has been inlaid into the steel, which reads, "+NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+."
Near Glastonbury..
Was it King Arthur’s Ex Caliber?
That’s where he ruled.
Oh, I think we can all guess what that means.
These are not cemeteries with head stones and the like. They find these cemeteries in farmers fields and even city parks. Pretty much every where you step in the UK beneath your feet is history. Nice Roman artifacts are not expensive in the UK. If it less than 300 years old it ain’t ancient to the Brits.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine?
Forged in Fire is a very educational show, really got me interested.
I almost wanted to get envolved with something like that but I have too many irons in the fire now:)
My father passed away ten years ago last month. He was a knifemaker... and I mean a REALLY good one. He started small but built up a fine shop for his craft. He could make beautiful Damascus steel like nobody. I wish he could have seen Forged in Fire. I can imagine him intently watching every episode and finding inspiration for his next project :-)
;^)
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