Jack Black
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Thank you Donn, that's another interesting post my friend :thumbup:
Sad to say on my last day there I went into a little shop in London and found a cheap Lambsfoot Jack Knife to bring home only to have it taken at the airport when I didn't drop it in an amnesty box. I just wanted to get home so I didn't even fight it and let them have it.
I am in Salisbury now! Just spent part of the day looking at that fantastic exhibit! Too bad there are no more cutlets here!Hello folks I thought I'd do a brief post on something I came across in the summer.
During the summer I visited Salisbury, one of England's ancient cathedral cities. During an amble through it's small but excellent museum I came across this small display. Like others I've often wondered about other cutlery centres aside from Sheffield; and was unaware that Salisbury at one time had one.
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And finally a collection of blades found in the rivers and drains of Salisbury over the years. Some of these dated back hundreds of years.
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Sorry for the quality of some of the pictures I was using my phone. I took other close ups of some of the knives but there actually really poor quality.
I am in Salisbury now! Just spent part of the day looking at that fantastic exhibit! Too bad there are no more cutlets here!
Thanks for the additional material, Donn, really interesting stuff.
Fascinating to consider too, in the context of 'Otzi the Iceman' - an earlier bearer of a copper tool, also from the Alps, and also a man whose power and status, may have been related to his metalworking knowledge and abilities.
Donn, I wonder if you have pics, or could point out the other two copper blades? I can't quite make them out in the linked material.
Ah thanks, I wasn't sure if those two together were knives or arrow/spear heads, at first.![]()
Fascinating Donn, it's a long time since I was in either Salisbury or Amesbury, and I've not visited the museum@ADEE is actually heading to Salisbury tomorrow, so I'll draw his attention to this
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The museum is in the (sizeable) Cathedral Close, alongside the Berkshire and Wiltshire Rifles museum so if ADEE likes his military history point that one out to.
I hope you got to see the 'Amesbury Archer' in Salisbury Museum. I took a couple of pics but didn't post them when I posted this thread as they were pretty poor.
http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/collections/stonehenge-prehistory/amesbury-archer
http://www.ancientcraft.co.uk/Archaeology/bronze-age/bronzeage_people.html
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Of interest to us all here are that the three copper knives found with him were the oldest metal tools/blades ever found in the UK. Effectively a link between the emerging metalworking cultures of continental Europe and stone-age Britain. Considering there over four and half thousand years old, these three small blades are in remarkably good condition.