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Bronze Age sword recovered from River Shannon

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  • #2
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    davycc wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/bronze-age-sword-recovered-from-river-shannon-30508634.html


    Some lucky streak they are having :pac:

    Is it just me, or is it very hard to make out exactly what the gentleman is holding? All I can see is a very dark object against a black background that has a truncated [broken-off] handle. It looks, from the little that I can make out, rather like the Dowris [Co. Offaly] bronze sword, of which I have made two replicas. [See Page 154, 'Pre-Christian Ireland' - Peter Harbison ISBN 0-500-27809-1, Thames and Hudson 1998].

    Does anybody have better pics?

    tac

    PS - I assume that 'Driving club' is a deliferous mistale?


  • #3
    pueblo
    Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭pueblo


    tac foley wrote: »

    "PS - I assume that 'Driving club' is a deliferous mistale?

    ...if it is they repeat it twice in the article!


  • #4
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    tac foley wrote: »
    Is it just me, or is it very hard to make out exactly what the gentleman is holding? All I can see is a very dark object against a black background that has a truncated [broken-off] handle. It looks, from the little that I can make out, rather like the Dowris [Co. Offaly] bronze sword, of which I have made two replicas. [See Page 154, 'Pre-Christian Ireland' - Peter Harbison ISBN 0-500-27809-1, Thames and Hudson 1998].

    Does anybody have better pics?

    tac

    PS - I assume that 'Driving club' is a deliferous mistale?

    There are 3 pics. Second is a close up.


  • #5
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Ah, being a cheapskate, I only get the one image. Must be an aol thing, I guess.

    I've just had a look on mrs tac's laptop and see the other two pics, and it has some similarity with the Dowris sword except that the pronounced leaf-shape is absent although the grip quillons are similar. It is a very beautiful object, and now perhaps the poor diver/driver will be able to buy himself a pair of socks so that he doesn't have to go around barefoot.

    tac


  • #6
    Reoil
    Registered Users Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    tac foley wrote: »
    Ah, being a cheapskate, I only get the one image. Must be an aol thing, I guess.

    Click the arrow to the right edge of the photo?


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  • #7
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users Posts: 3,567 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    Jist cuz he couldna spoke proper Englund, Huh!


  • #8
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Reoil wrote: »
    Click the arrow to the right edge of the photo?

    Yup, as I explone above, if I use anything except aol it's a breeze.

    Anyhow, none of my images has a url so I can't load them directly here like I can with most every other site I use, else I would have been doing it for the four or five years I've been posting here.

    tac


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