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How to grip Bronze Age swords
An ordinary Late Bronze Age European sword of the so-called Naue type II. It has a bronze hilt of hollow scales riveted to the...
A Naue type II by Neil Burridge(YouTube@BronzeAgeSwords, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/people/Bronze-Age-Swords/100063638134114/) held at maximum comfortable extension before the pommel collides with my wristMost European Bronze Age swords had wooden, bone, or ivory hilts which have rotted away. Its very hard to find people with a broad familiarity with Italian, Central European, Iberian, and British martial arts let alone things like Sikh gatka. The Concept of Quality.” In Marion Uckelmann and Marianne Mödlinger, eds., Warfare in Bronze Age Europe: Manufacture and Use of Weaponry(Archaeopress: Oxford, 2011) pp.
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