Posted on 04/12/2025 10:13:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Miami Herald reports that two Polish metal detectorists combing a beach after a storm found a rare 2,500-year-old weapon embedded in a block of clay that had recently fallen from a cliffside. Although its exact location remains undisclosed, the 10-inch long, intricately designed dagger was found in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Officials from the Museum of the History of the Kamień Land determined that it dated back to the Hallstatt period of the early Iron Age. "A true work of art!" said museum director Grzegorz Kurka. "I have not seen such a dagger in my experience with findings in Polish territories." The blade is decorated with rows of small crescent moon–like symbols, crosses, and other star-like shapes connected by lines running down the object that may represent constellations. Due to its design and decoration, experts suggest it may have been associated with a solar cult and thus had special ritual significance. Further analysis is underway to determine the composition of the dagger's alloy and identify signs of its usage. Researchers also hope to ascertain whether it was locally made, or cast—perhaps somewhere in southern Europe—and subsequently imported into the area.
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Lots of information on it. Looks like solar eclipses.
Someone should post an image of a cross pattern Damascus blade with the caption : religious ritual dagger circa 2025 found during excavation of 21st century ruins.
I’d do it but shopping with the wife...
TM.
The headline doesn’t lie. Color me stuned.
LOL! Del Rey and the Blues Gators used to do a great version of that.
Not in 500 BC they weren’t.
My guess is a guy was climbing a cliff face and a bird whacked him in the head and he fell leaving the blade in the clay....
I wondered where I left that.
“Due to its design and decoration, experts suggest it may have been associated with a solar cult and thus had special ritual significance.”
Always..................
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