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Here is the original
of the sword found in Turcianská Blatnica in Slovakia. The replica made
by Patrick Barta is here. Another
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Source: Photographed 2015 in the Budapest
museum |
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Here is an almost
perfectly preserved sword from Illerup Ådal with a pattern welded
blade and an incrustation
depicting the war God Mars. The damage of the edges might be from fighting or
from a ritual "killing" of the sword before it was sacrificed. The
drawings are from the
Illerup Adal
book |
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Two more Vendel
period pyramid hilts with pommel rings. |
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Here is the
Munich pugio with a pattern
welded core as it is presently (2014) displayed: |
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The pugio is part of a large hoard
of Roman iron that was found 1962 in Künzing, Bavaria, Germany. The stuff
was most likely buried after the Alemanni took the Roman fortress there in 259
AD. The winners probably looted the battlefield and the remains of the
burnt-down fort and then buried part of the loot for reasons unknown. The 82 kg
of iron objects are the largest find of Roman iron from the 3rd century that
has been made so far.
Here are some large-scale pictures
of the hoard. |
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Munich pugio with pattern welded
core |
Source: Photographed (2014) in the
Archäologischen Staatssammlung, München, Germany |
Link to main text |
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Here are some - roughly - 600 AD
swords, saxes and other stuff from Alemanni graves in the region of Memmingen,
Germany. |
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Alemanni artifacts from around 600 AD;
Memmingen region |
Source: Photographed (2014) in the
Memmingem town museum. |
Link to main text |
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It is not easy to tell for two of
the three swords if they were made by pattern welding or not.
Here are large scale pictures of
parts of the blades (roughly indicates by the black squares above); judge for
yourself. |
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Here are the pages from the auction
catalogue of Hermann Historica in Munich, Germany, from Sept. 2015 that show
pattern welded Celtic blades with two striped rods running down the length of
the blade and quite remarkable
anthropoid hilts.
A detailed view of the first blade can be found
here. |
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Celtic
blade from 300 BC with two striped rods, not unlike
this one with four striped rods
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Second sword; the description is
similar to the first one.
Pattern welding is not as obvious but present. |
Source: Hermann Historica on-line auction
catalogue 2015 |
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With frame

Books and Other Major Sources
Danish Bog Sacrifices
Large Pictures 1
11.4.2 Blades of Viking Era Swords
11.3.3 Evolution of Pattern Welding
11.4.3 Ulfberht Swords
"Damascene" Patterns
Large Pictures chapter 11.4
Large Pictures 2 - Chapter 11.3
Illerup Swords with Special Patterns
Migration Period Swords and Fancy Hilts & Pommels
Illerup Ådal
Additional Pictures - Chapter 11.1
Large Pictures 3
© H. Föll (Iron, Steel and Swords script)