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Thread #161536   Message #3839320
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
16-Feb-17 - 12:21 PM
Thread Name: 3,000 yr old bronze sword - Scotland
Subject: 3,000 yr old bronze sword - Scotland
Archaeology story stories make it into the threads every so often, and here is one about a remarkable find.

In what archaeologists are calling the "find of a lifetime," a horde of Late Bronze Age weapons has been discovered at a Scottish construction site. Among the items found is a gold-decorated spearhead, and a 3,000-year-old bronze sword in remarkably good condition.

The artifacts were found during an archaeological evaluation on a field in Carnoustie, Scotland prior to the construction of two of soccer fields. The firm commissioned to do the work, GUARD Archaeology, says the hoard of ancient metalworks is a "rare and internationally significant discovery." The items were found in a pit close to a Bronze Age Settlement currently being excavated by the archaeologists.


And this:

"The earliest Celtic myths often highlight the reflectivity and brilliance of heroic weapons," explained Blair in an interview with the BBC. "Gold decoration was probably added to this bronze spearhead to exalt it both through the material's rarity and its visual impact."


This is going into BS because it isn't strictly a music story (it can be moved later) - but those "myths" the story mentions - is that shorthand for poems, illuminated texts, or songs about those brilliant "heroic weapons?" (The story is picked up from the BBC that doesn't mention the source of those myths either).