Flint sword by Åtte Bjerge
The flint sword from Åtte Bjerge ( Danish Flintægsværdet fra Åtte ), a hilly landscape in Kongeådalen , about 11.0 km west of Vejen in Jutland in Denmark , is the only 43 cm long copy of a contemporary ( 17th - 16th century BC) bronze swords .
In the case of the flint sword, which is not suitable as a weapon and is to be regarded as a prestige object, only the tip of the sword and the two cutting edges consisted of (several pieces) of flint. They were inserted into a sheet of wood and glued together with birch pitch to form the blade. The processing and design of the handle, which was originally wrapped in organic material, tie in with the Nordic tradition of the dagger era , in which ready-to-use daggers primarily made of flint imitated the bronze models . The sword was found together with a Fårdrupt-type ax, which contributed to the dating. Fragments of flint swords are known from some Danish sites. The fully preserved flint material from Åtte is exhibited in the National Museum in Copenhagen.
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literature
- Ebbe Lomborg: Fladehuggede flintredskaber i gravfund fra ældre bronzealder. In: Aarbøger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie 1959. 1960, pp. 146–180 (therein: Flintægsværdet fra Åtte, dets fundforhold og datering. Pp. 146–156).
- Merete Harding: Åtte Bjerge. In: The Danske store. Gyldendal ( denstoredanske.lex.dk ).
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