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Post by legacyofthesword on Oct 20, 2016 19:12:01 GMT
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Post by legacyofthesword on Oct 20, 2016 19:20:28 GMT
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Post by legacyofthesword on Oct 20, 2016 19:34:32 GMT
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Post by Croccifixio on Oct 21, 2016 9:31:27 GMT
The Archaeology of Weapons (Oakeshott) discusses a lot of beautiful "celtic" swords.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Oct 23, 2016 4:30:22 GMT
Huh. Should have done my research. Apparently, the iron and the bronze swords were from the same time period. So, very early iron sword. |
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Post by legacyofthesword on Oct 23, 2016 4:55:57 GMT
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Post by legacyofthesword on Oct 23, 2016 5:32:54 GMT
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Oct 23, 2016 6:00:53 GMT
And there will be more in the next years.
Due to a real estate boom here in Germany new areas are opened for new buildings and in many of those areas there must be some archeological research first.
Along the Danube many celtic or later bloomery places were found in the last years, really an early industrial area.
Also all kind of metal relics were found.
You can see a commercial race between the late bronze casters/smiths and the early ironsmiths, using the bronzeswords as a pattern.
It will be interesting if quenched steelswords can be found from a time before the romans came here.
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Post by Luka on Oct 23, 2016 9:50:17 GMT
There is at least 600-700 year gap between the above bronze and iron swords from Must farm. Must farm has many archeological layers from different time periods.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Oct 23, 2016 23:19:26 GMT
There is at least 600-700 year gap between the above bronze and iron swords from Must farm. Must farm has many archeological layers from different time periods. Aha! So I was (partially) right in the first place. The styles were totally different, so I just assumed bronze age for the bronze sword and La Tene for the iron one. |
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Post by Luka on Oct 25, 2016 12:52:05 GMT
That was a good assumption. :)
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Post by legacyofthesword on Nov 4, 2016 3:13:08 GMT
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Post by legacyofthesword on Mar 30, 2017 23:21:36 GMT
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Post by NihontoEurope on Nov 30, 2017 13:10:31 GMT
Here is another one:
(been posted here before)
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Post by rhema1313 on Dec 1, 2017 7:33:28 GMT
Great Research Material.... Thank you!
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Post by NihontoEurope on Dec 1, 2017 8:34:37 GMT
Thank you!
It took me several months and several international loans to the local library. Not to forget a bit of luck as I managed to get both catalogues (text only version and text&illustrations version) from the auction held 1913. The records from "Sotheby, Wilkingson & Hodge", in London were unfortunately destroyed during the Hitler bombing campaign which smoked the records of the sale.
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Post by seth on Jan 17, 2018 18:52:30 GMT
Wow. Thanks for all those links. I developed an interest in Celtic history after listening to Dan Carlin's podcast "The Celtic Holocaust." Highly recommend it, but if you think the Romans were the greatest thing since before sliced bread, you may not like them as much after listening. Anyway, I was thinking of adding a Celtic sword to my collection, and I came across this Deepeeka piece of Kult of Athena: www.kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=AH4324&name=Celtic+Short+SwordI really like the aesthetics of it, and the price can't be beat. I have read that Deepeeka's "battle ready" stuff is not. I don't plan on battling any Roman Legionaries, but I do like my swords to be more than just wall-hangers. Anyone own this sword and can offer feedback? Thanks. |
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jan 17, 2018 19:19:57 GMT
Afaik celtic swords from the times before the roman empire weren't quenched (at least there is no proof they were) so a not heat treated Deepeeka would be historical correct.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Jan 18, 2018 2:24:29 GMT
Wow. Thanks for all those links. I developed an interest in Celtic history after listening to Dan Carlin's podcast "The Celtic Holocaust." Highly recommend it, but if you think the Romans were the greatest thing since before sliced bread, you may not like them as much after listening. Anyway, I was thinking of adding a Celtic sword to my collection, and I came across this Deepeeka piece of Kult of Athena: www.kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=AH4324&name=Celtic+Short+SwordI really like the aesthetics of it, and the price can't be beat. I have read that Deepeeka's "battle ready" stuff is not. I don't plan on battling any Roman Legionaries, but I do like my swords to be more than just wall-hangers. Anyone own this sword and can offer feedback? Thanks. It's true that the Roman did various nasty and extremely anti-social things to each other, their enemies, and other people. I tend to view history with a somewhat cynical eye: as far as I can tell, if the positions were reversed the Celts would have done the same to the Romans. But yes, the destruction of the Celtic civilization was a brutal affair (as were most Roman wars). And thank you for the thank you. I'm just happy someone else gets a kick out of this stuff the way I do. I've never owned a Depeeka, but as Andi stated, there were reports of early Celtic iron swords needing to be bent back into shape after a blow, so as he said, you could treat it as historical accuracy! |
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Jan 18, 2018 6:04:56 GMT
VAE VICTIS
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