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Tin is the weakest metal for the manufacture of weapons and, therefore, undesirable due to its fragility. Copper, the second in hardness, was widely used in the Early and Middle Bronze Age when the alloy of copper and tin was discovered with which bronze was obtained, a metal of greater hardness.
According to the inventory of the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid, this piece was found in Atarfe, a municipality in the province of Granada.
- GARNISH: the handle made of organic material, antler or wood, is missing and in its place a drawing has been made to assume what it was like and see its anchorage to the blade. Four rivets, one of them missing, hold the blade and, as you can imagine, they did not have a great fixation, in fact years later they would be manufactured with the handle and blade in a single block.
- BLADE: of cast and hammered arsenical copper. Straight, wide and flat, without channels or voids and with a triangular tendency. It decreases until it reaches a fine point. It is attached to the cuff with four rivets.
Copper Sword (1700-1300 BC/1700-1300 BC)
NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUMAL
Photography by Hulmeister Guillén
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Author: Vicente Toledo Momparler (spadologist)
