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fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
2 days agoComplete carnyx, boar head standard found in Norfolk
A near-complete Iron Age carnyx and Britain’s first boar’s-head flag standard were found in a Thetford hoard dating to 50 B.C.–50 A.D.
CT scans of a 16th century sword from Jena in Germany have revealed a name engraved on the blade, hidden by a thick encrustation of rust. The inscription reads Clemes Stam, the name of the Solingen swordsmith who made it. The blade was one of four surviving swords interred in the graves of the Collegiate Church in Jena where faculty, students and their families were buried in crypts between the late 16th and early 19th centuries.