Bump!
Those round shaft parts of the spear points look awful accurate to be made during the Iron Age.
Stabby toys ping.
Clank!
It only took archaeologists 50 years to adopt the technology of metal detecting after it came around. it says some pretty sad things about the people in the profession of archaeology.
Oh no, the Germans hoarding weapons. This never turns out good.
They are just the losers weapons from “Forged In Fire”.
Arsenal! Who went to jail?
Many of the weapons have been bent or damaged to “Kill” the spirit in the weapon, after the owner died.
They now cannot get up and run through the village killing everyone in their way as modern handguns and A-s-s-ault rifles do!(sarc)
QUINCY M.E. (from the 1970s TV show)..”WE’VE got to stop ‘IT’ before ‘IT’ kills again!” “It” was a handgun that escaped it’s owner and went on a killing spree.
This is so cool! How in the world did iron implements and weapons not rust away over 2,000 years? That isn’t explained and wouldn’t seem to make any sense.
The site is only 60 miles east of my paternal familial home! Maybe I’m related to those people. I’ve got my family tree developed back to the 1600s — only another 1600 years to confirm I’m related.
The article says “...the researchers took a new approach to locate iron artifacts hiding beneath the dirt floor—using metal detectors.” I tell you, those “researchers” are up on the latest tech!
Did you see how all the swords are bent in the photo? I was wondering about that when I read the article which says “The swords were bent into halves or thirds and the spears and lance tips had been blunted. The severity of the damage, the researchers suggested, indicates that it was done intentionally after a battle had concluded. That meant the artifacts had likely been taken from a defeated enemy.”
I thought they found another tank.
More pictures at the original press release site listed at the end of the article:
https://www.lwl.org/pressemitteilungen/nr_mitteilung.php?urlID=52158
Those would be dated long before the Hun invasion, and probably during the step by step migration of the Celts from Turkey (Anatolia) and eventually into western Europe (France, England, Scotland, Wales, etc.). Not entirely the same “Germanic” (word translated from Latin) people.
I’m guessing that those swords were bent up and discarded when replaced with swords with stronger tangs. Good tangs were a problem with many swords that needed to be re-engineered and made.
Aren’t they all lumps of rust by now?
Someday, archeologists will come to the site of my home and find the biggest hoard of carbon-steel age weapons ever excavated.