Lunds Universitets Historiska Museum

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Bearded axe, I would guess Vendel period or early Viking age.

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Sacrificial weapons, intentionally destroyed, ranging form the bronze age to the iron age.

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Oden, spear god, war god, shapeshifter of over two hundred names, god of wisdom, god of the hanged, hungry for knowledge, deceitful, demanding human sacrifice. Selecting half of the foremost warriors for the final battle.

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Probably a pommel short here.

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And stepping back a bit in time again.

this is cool, I applied to Lund but couldn't get in

too many refugees I guess

>>34702749
Do the regular prayers to Mecca get in the way of viewing all the exhibits?

Cool stuff. Thanks, man!

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>>34702843
Are those made out of flint?
How fucking huge the original stones must have been?

>>34702996
Keep /pol/ in /pol/

>>34703012
>Responding
You fucked up

>>34703012
Keep Islam in the middle east

>>34702996
Finally a thread with some OC and you try to shit it up with 'hurr Sweden hurr Muslims'.
You should feel bad.

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>>34703008
Flint indeed, so some pretty hefty chunks I'd guess.

For those who have never looked into it, this may give some idea of the size relationship between rock and finished object when knapping stone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIRdJVt1ryE

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With bronze being bloody expensive, stone wouldn't really be replaced by metal for everyday tools until the iron age, and even a decent amount of weaponry was made form stone. Arrowheads in particular, given their somewhat consumable nature.

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And back to the stone age again.

>>34703194
How were the decorations made?

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>>34703256
Looks like engraved lines to me, with the white colour either being a result of conservation or intentional (modern) highlighting. Note how the corroded patch near the bottom of the picture has also gotten filled in, so it shouldn't be an inlay or similar.

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In between stone and bronze: copper axes.

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Not really weaponry related, here's a walking cane which belonged to bishop Peder Winstrup (1605-1679). Included because the mother of pearl inlays over a back base along with copper bands could just as well have been a Japanese spear shaft, making for an IMO nice example of parallel thinking.

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Switching over to Stobaeus' curiosity collection. Donated to the university in 1735 it became the basis for the museum when it first opened in 1805.

>>34703011
this mold...do you think there was a cone shape floated inside to give it a hollow shaft slot, or could it have been slush cast in some way? asking because i will do this procedure

>>34703471
pour in metal, put in stick

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>>34703471
I remember back, quite a few years ago, Albion apparently had a few bronze spearheads cast up as a trial run. Except the foundry made the sockets solid... Off to the bargain bin they went.

Anecdotes aside, I didn't have much of a clue, but on a whim I took a look at Neil Burridge's site, and it seems clay cores is the answer: http://www.bronze-age-craft.com/casting.htm

Good luck.

>>34703487
is this real? they are usually riveted as well, which could be done after, but i think the 'add stick' method would result in a lot of miscasts when the stick end is not centered and touches the mold, resulting in a super weak spot or even a hole

>>34703536
>>34703522
Those are some metal dildos!

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Scanian daggers, late 17th century.

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>>34703543
Anything if you're brave enough...

>>34703155
I always liked those small axe-head caps. Take an L shaped stick and cap the end with an axe point. It probably saved a lot of metal for them instead of making a full axe head. That would let you stretch resources further.

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And that's it. Zip if anyone wants it: https://www.mediafire.com/?rg8u5s1m5nzaqdq

>>34703644
Doesn't seem unlikely, bronze was really expensive stuff.

>>34703583
Pretty sweet boone knife.

Thanks for another awesome thread.

>not a lot of /k/ related stuff

proceeds to dump dozens of oc weapon pics, I like you anon you are subtle.

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>>34704734
I tend to draw the line between "a few" and "some" around the thread image limit. And a museum with a decent amount of arms and armour will rarely have me stop before that.

Though speaking of image limit, I just went through my pictures from Kulturen in Lund, and there's even less of those than from the first museum, so let's go medieval and make a double feature out of this.

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The remains of a glaive supposedly here behind the broadaxe.

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Which in turn may be mostly seen as a Viking weapon, but it appears to only have showed up at the very end of the Viking age, seeing more use in the high middle ages instead, and where it eventually developed into the halberd.

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Tooled decoration appears to have been a must back in the day for scabbards and the like.

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Kulturen is primarily an outdoors museum showcasing various buildings. I though this one was pretty neat.

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Castle interior, 16th century.

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13th or 14th century.

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And a rune stone to round it off.

Zip: https://www.mediafire.com/?71cpm01mqm9kusm

Great thread, OP

thanks for the dump OP

There's a lot of rusted iron weapons here, how do museums preserve them in a way that doesn't alter how they looked when they were found? Are they acid washed and then sealed with something? Or just oiled some and set out for display?

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>>34706163
>how do museums preserve them in a way that doesn't alter how they looked when they were found?

Weak acids can be use dot get rid of active corrosion, but I don't know how commonly used it is. Getting rid of such corrosion is definitely standard though, as it'd keep eating up the object otherwise. And I doubt all of these objects were found completely without.

More solid oxides may be left, but if we look at the Viking sword for example there isn't much such left, so at times they remove that too. The weak acid route seems likely here.

Strong bases can be sued too, but leave a horribly chalky surface behind. Doesn't seem to be used at all any more.

No idea what they finally slap on for preservation. Some sort of heavy oil or wax I'd guess.

Thanks for sharing OP