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Sword
Unknown1000/1040
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Leiden, Nederland
Details
- Titel: Sword
- Maker: Unknown
- Aanmaakdatum: 1000/1040
- Locatie: Wijk bij Duurstede, Nederland
- Sword: In 1940, an iron sword was dredged up out of the River Lek, near Wijk bij Duurstede. It dates from the early 10th century and its hilt has a semicircular pommel. The blade was made using a very special technique: damascening. In this process, the iron is repeatedly heated and forged from alternating carbon-rich (hard and brittle) and carbon-poor (soft and pliable) iron. A sword must be both hard and pliable, and this process produced the ideal composition. On this sword, the inscription +ATABALD+II was added in the damascening. This may have been related to the Utrecht bishop Adabald (866-699).
- Fysieke afmetingen: h96.8 cm
- Datering: 1000-1040 AD
- Afmetingen: lengte: 96,8 cm
- Type: sword
- Externe link: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
- Materiaal: metal ; iron
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