I should have been a history major - but those folks didn't make the bucks I wanted - thus I went into the mechanical construction industry. Got here alive My passions are intact
Interesting read. I have always thought about the hoards of bent swords that are found and wondered if they were testing the swords and just leaving the poorly made and badly tempered ones. I wonder if these bronze hoards are the same way and thats why the tools were broken before being deposited.