A metal detectorist recently spotted a 2,700-year-old bronze sword in an unusual position — standing upright in the ground. The discovery was announced by the Pomeranian Provincial Heritage Conservator on Facebook earlier in June.
Discovery Details
The weapon was found by hobbyist Marcin Wiśniewski in the Gdańsk Forest District in northern Poland, near the Baltic coast. It dates to the Late Bronze Age, between 900 and 700 B.C.
Wiśniewski — who previously found a Bronze Age hoard in a forested area outside of Gdańsk — alerted heritage officials to the discovery. After the discovery was reported, staff from the Department of Archaeological Monuments recovered the artifact using proper archaeological methods, working together with the finder.
Officials said the latest discovery is not the first Bronze Age sword unearthed in what is now the Gdańsk Forest District. In the 1920s, two antenna-hilt bronze swords were discovered in a peat bog at Rynarzewo, but were lost during World War II.
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