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Sword, late second or very early third century (iron)

Sword, late second or very early third century (iron)
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IMAGE number
TW2967364
Image title
Sword, late second or very early third century (iron)
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Artist
Roman
Location
Arbeia Roman Fort & Museum, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Medium
iron
Dimensions
length: 46 cms
Image description

The blade is an early example of 'pattern-welding', when small iron bars are twisted together to make a pattern in the metal, although the double herring-bone pattern is now only visible under X-ray. It has also been inlaid with an eagle between military standards and a figure of Mars, the god of war. This would have been a very expensive sword, and seems to have been given as an offering to the gods

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Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
weapon / Great Britain / Europe / figure / sword / tapering / incomplete / motif / site / archaeological / tapered / antiquity / iron / figures / weapon / pattern / england / metalwork / archaeology / artefact / double / britain / british / herringbone / antiquities / blade / copper / weaponry / alloy / inlaid / design / roman / hilt

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