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Sorry to the OP for 'jacking' the Thread. Thank you Professori Jake pogg! I love history! I'm a Layman, but an enthusiastic amateur.
There was a recent find in the UK of a 'Viking Battle Axe' with the Haft partially intact. I'm sure most folks would "Ho-hum". But, archaeologically, this was big for the very reasons you state. I think this is a 'Bog' find. The O2 levels in a Peat Bog are very low, as I'm sure you know, allowing the wood to survive.
There is a documentary short film about the 'Ulfberht swords'. The steel in these swords, from a purity standpoint, is as good as crucible steel made today. Which baffled the scholars and Metallurgists for decades. How and where were these swords produced? I'm surprised that idiot with 'spiky hair' hasn't said it was 'Ancient Alien steel' from Zeta Reticuli.
With the help of a Master Sword Maker, they re-created an 'Ulfberht' sword right down to the brass inlay name. The Sword-maker admitted it required every skill he had acquired over the past 30-years to create this 'Ulfberht' reproduction. And even then he acknowledged the sword he made, might not be as good as the originals. Now, that is a bold admission.
Anyway, thank you for the scholarly treatise, I appreciate it.
SJ
There was a recent find in the UK of a 'Viking Battle Axe' with the Haft partially intact. I'm sure most folks would "Ho-hum". But, archaeologically, this was big for the very reasons you state. I think this is a 'Bog' find. The O2 levels in a Peat Bog are very low, as I'm sure you know, allowing the wood to survive.
There is a documentary short film about the 'Ulfberht swords'. The steel in these swords, from a purity standpoint, is as good as crucible steel made today. Which baffled the scholars and Metallurgists for decades. How and where were these swords produced? I'm surprised that idiot with 'spiky hair' hasn't said it was 'Ancient Alien steel' from Zeta Reticuli.
With the help of a Master Sword Maker, they re-created an 'Ulfberht' sword right down to the brass inlay name. The Sword-maker admitted it required every skill he had acquired over the past 30-years to create this 'Ulfberht' reproduction. And even then he acknowledged the sword he made, might not be as good as the originals. Now, that is a bold admission.
Anyway, thank you for the scholarly treatise, I appreciate it.
SJ