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The Perfect Sword - Forging the Dark Ages (Hardcover)
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The Perfect Sword - Forging the Dark Ages (Hardcover)
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List price R659
Loot Price R597
Discovery Miles 5 970
You Save R62 (9%)
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The story of the Bamburgh Sword - one of the finest swords ever
forged. In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword.
An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a
suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that the sword
had more to tell than appeared, so he sent it for specialist tests.
When the results came back, he realised that what he had in his
possession was possibly the finest, and certainly the most complex,
sword ever made, which had been forged in seventh-century
Northumberland by an anonymous swordsmith. This is the story of the
Bamburgh Sword - of how and why it was made, who made it and what
it meant to the warriors and kings who wielded it over three
centuries. It is also the remarkable story of the archaeologists
and swordsmiths who found, studied and attempted to recreate the
weapon using only the materials and technologies available to the
original smith.
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