fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: June 08, 2007 03:11AM
a Bronze Age Masterpiece in ancient weaponry.
Items of this calibre are near impossible to obtain as the majority are to be
found in state museums. This artefact has been de-accessioned from an old
English collection and we are very privileged to have been given the opportunity
to offer it. Provenance: Found near water in the tributaries of the river Danube
in Germany. Via German auction house in Munich. It exhibits a superb
green-azurite patina on the handle, and a honey-green water patina on the
blade. Albeit for some deformity of the handle as shown, and a chipping of the
blade in one place, the weapon is intact, unrestored and uncleaned. The handle
is decorated with concentric circles in bands and incised La Tene lines.
The new owner would be advised to publish this masterpiece and take it to his or
her nearest state museum where it can be recorded into the archaeological
literature. Length of Weapon: 21 inches. The date of manufacture of this weapon
is the Bronze Age some 1500 to 1000 BC. Our early western European Ancestors
believed in powerful Water Spirits and Human Sacrifice. Humans, often enemies,
but on occasions respected local noblemen, were sacrificed in a ritual fashion
with such swords near the water to upease the Gods or to ask for a favour to be
granted. Often after the sacrifice, the high priests or druids, used to
ceremoniously fling these superb swords into the water as part of the sacrifice
ritual, as a further offering to the Gods. Hence the fact that these precious
objects have often been retrieved from fresh water. For more literature on this
subject please consult: Art of the Celts by Lloyd and Jennifer Laing, ISBN
Number: 0500202567.
Estimated Value: $7000.