2023-06-21 11:32:51
Updated Wednesday, June 21, 2023 – 11:32
In the burial, remains of three people were found buried with valuable bronze objects
The bronze sword found in Nordlingen (Germany). Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Prehistory Rise and fall of a ‘Murcian orchard’ in the Bronze Age
A bronze sword, which is over 3,000 years old but so well preserved that it still shines, has been discovered at an archaeological site in Nordlingen (Germany).
It is a whole sword with an octagonal hilt made entirely of bronze, unearthed as part of a funerary trousseau provisionally dated to the end of the 14th century BC, that is, the Middle Bronze Age.
In the burial, remains of three people were found who were buried with valuable bronze objects: a man, a woman, and an adolescent. The link between them is not yet clear.
The manufacture of octagonal swords is complex, since the hilt is cast on the blade (called superimposed casting). The decoration is through a marquetry and by means of punches. While there are two actual rivets, another pair of rivets is only implied. Despite the manufacturing effort and the lack of cut marks, it is assumed that it was a real gun.
“The sword and the burial still have to be examined so that our archaeologists can classify this find with greater precision. But a find like this is very rare,” explains the curator general in a statement. Mathias Pfeilhead of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of aviara.
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