NOVOSIBIRSK, 14 Sep. Archaeologists from Novosibirsk State University (NSU) have studied an iron sword, which unknown persons handed over to a scrap metal point in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and dated it to the early Iron Age, according to an article in the journal Vestnik NSU. Oleg Mitko and Sergei Skobelev investigated a double-edged iron sword of the early Iron Age from a private collection, which, according to its owner, was found at one of the scrap metal collection points in the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
In Scotland, a treasure hunter found a treasure three thousand years old «The sword is an enlarged technological modification of the traditional Tagar dagger. The total length of the sword is 59.5 centimeters, the width of the lenticular blade is about 7 centimeters. The handle with a volute top is separated from the blade by a narrow butterfly-shaped crosshair.» , — write the authors of the article, noting that the iron sword can be attributed to the «unique phenomena» of the early Iron Age of the Minusinsk Basin. Researchers note that such Scythian swords date back to the end of the 5th — 4th centuries BC and belong to the so-called Tagar culture. » the emergence of iron processing technology in the Minusinsk Basin makes it possible to consider the Krasnoyarsk sword to be an import item, or to attribute the time of its existence to the period of the end of the 3rd-2nd centuries BC, when the mass production of weapons and tools from low-carbon steel began, «the article says. to the type of short swords that were effective in close combat when dealing with chopping blows, as well as when protecting the head and torso. Also, the blade allowed stabbing blows in hand-to-hand combat. Researchers believe that the Krasnoyarsk sword is one of the «experimental» samples, the form of which was not fixed in the further practice of producing bladed melee weapons.
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