Posted on 08/22/2020 3:44:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A rare, fully intact sword from the 10th century has been found at the bottom of a lake.
The sword which is decorated with a cross and has the remains of its leather scabbard, was discovered along with artefacts dating back to the times of the first Piast by archaeologists exploring Lednica Lake, between Poznan and Gniezno...
The younger bridge dates back to the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries, while the older to the beginning of the 10th. The wood used for its construction was cut down in the years 913 and 914...
Underneath the bridges' remnants, the archaeologists uncovered 21 objects, including the early medieval ornamented sword and two axes, other weapons such as arrowheads and crossbow bolts from the 13th and 14th centuries, as well as a sickle from that period...
The notable 10th-century sword and axe couldn't belong to a regular warrior and point to people of importance travelling to Ostrów Lednicki. The axe, similar in style to Scandinavian ones, was inlaid with silver and adorned.
The sword was decorated with a cross, a common European trope, but a rare find considering the place and time when it was made. Other findings include ceramics and animal bones.
Using photogrammetry (measuring and scanning the place to create a model), the researchers mapped the bottom of the lake and even 1.5 meters below it and created a detailed 3D model of the area.
The method led to another discovery, which provided new information on the settlement's role and size.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefirstnews.com ...
Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
The rest of the dendrochronology keyword:
Well I’m no doctor, but it sure looks to me like the lady in that x-ray may have cancer of the clitoris...
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Oh.
Sorry, my bad.
Ok, I have to eat dinner sometime, LOL, I can’t always be first.
Really kewl, thanks.
Suggests that it and the other finds might be votive offerings.
If you drop the knife, leave it, some archaeologist will find in a thousand years from now.
I came here for THIS!
We actually saw it at a COVID pop-up drive-in movie about a month ago. Wife knew most of the memes but had never seen it, it was her pick.
Conclusion: It’s a guy flick, but she wasn’t sorry she finally watched it.
Her worst attacker, other than 108 years in a saltwater environment, is a microorganism that eats iron and craps rust. The "rusticles" (called so by Dr. Ballard, who found her) are basically amoeba poop from these critters.
Brass and other nonferrous inorganics are actually in pretty good shape, where they weren't smashed by the ship hitting the bottom. I wouldn't mind a crack at some of the electric light fixtures still hanging around in there.
Those will have been down there a while longer.
My pleasure.
"...the one in the middle looks like Willie Nelson..."
“The wood used for its construction was cut down in the years 913 and 914..”
“The tree was cut down in 980, during the reign of Duke Mieszko I, the first documented ruler of Poland.”
Unless bark is present, the radiocarbon date doesn’t and can’t show anything of the kind (apart from an unverifiable coincidence).
No one is talking about radiocarbon dating. We are talking about dating by treerings.
The 913 and 914 dates are for the wood used in the bridge.
The 980 date is for wood used in the shore fortification.
The author makes it clear the year is for the date the tree was cut down.
The artifact could have been made later.
Thanks! The Titanic has decayed visibly since its rediscovery due to the digestion. The non-iron components in the iron (impurities introduced for metallurgical reasons) turned out to be the enabling factor for the digestion. In perhaps 50 years it'll just be a decaying pile of junk on the seafloor.
A very large difference, indeed.
Did they find the moistened bint?
These are the times I wish FR had a like button! Monty Python for the win!
I’m kinda glad I didn’t find it. I know it’s no basis for a legitimate government, but there’s a part of me that would never quit feeling like I should be king.
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