A fisherman on the banks of the Vistula River in Warsaw caught a medieval sword THIS BIG. Angler Andrzej Korpikiewicz was not truly fishing on the time. It was too scorching for that, so he was simply having fun with a pleasant stroll by the river, testing what is likely to be seen in its low water ranges. He noticed a rusty metallic object mendacity on a concrete influx head, however he figured it was a chunk of rebar or a hinge. He fished it out, cleaned off a few of the leeches, river snails and freshwater shrimp clinging to it, and noticed a cross pattée with triangular arms engraved into the metallic.
Realizing it could possibly be a historic artifact, he hid it within the grass by the river after which referred to as a buddy who’s a metallic detectorist. The buddy correctly instructed him he ought to preserve the sword moist to guard it, so he soaked some t-shirts within the Vistula and wrapped the sword in them. It spent the evening in his automobile, and the following morning Andrzej Korpikiewicz introduced it to the Warsaw Conservator of Monuments.
It has been tentatively recognized as a medieval sword with its size virtually intact, minus the pointed tip. It has a spherical or globular pommel and the cross is halfway down the hilt. A number of medieval knightly orders used a cross pattée as their emblem, together with the Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitaller, but it surely may be workshop or maker’s mark, or just a blessing on the sword.
The sword has now been transferred to the Metallic Conservation Workshop of the State Archaeological Museum the place it is going to be totally cleaned, stabilized and analyzed to find out its age, origin and the that means of the cross image.
