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To: SunkenCiv
It is thought they were laid there as part of a ritual offering sometime between 1550 and 1250 BC.

As well as swords, axes, spearheads, sickles and jewellery[sic] the historians also found part of a bronze helmet.

This must be strictly ceremonial stuff. Real men wore boars' tooth helmets.

20 posted on 08/10/2006 8:10:49 PM PDT by kitchen (Over gunned? Hell, that's better than the alternative!)
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To: kitchen

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22 posted on 08/10/2006 8:52:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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