Timeline for What cheap modern items can I use to bribe medieval people?
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| Oct 7, 2020 at 15:03 | history | edited | Mike Vonn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2020 at 14:59 | comment | added | Mike Vonn | Another thing. The fact that all of these items would be made with high background steel (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel) would suggest to any investigator that they are clever fakes. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 19:53 | comment | added | Mike Vonn | They have noted that hammerheads are commonly found artifacts, but examination of these examples reveals that a tremendous amount of weathering has occured. 3.bp.blogspot.com/-WtXil479SUs/Tc2U4hYeWII/AAAAAAAAAJg/… Bottom line. I would do it. It is a reach to think any surviving examples would warrant any further investigation. Were an investigator to press the issue, they always have site contamination as a possible explanation. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 19:46 | comment | added | Mike Vonn | The biggest worry is the hammers. The thin blades rust away to fast and will not be recognizable 1000 years after the fact. There is a bit of a cottage industry in making realistic replicas. These guys invariable look at pictures and drawings for their replica work thomasguild.blogspot.com/2011/05/… | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 19:43 | comment | added | Mike Vonn | Based off my experience visiting museums, and what I can tell searching online, we don't have many surviving examples of hand tools from the past. These types of things are generally consumed through use, and not preserved, as they are not rare or valuable after they have failed. Most of what we know of their tools is from accounts and drawings. books.google.com/… | |
| Mar 24, 2017 at 14:22 | comment | added | David K | Things like this will get preserved in a workshop, not left to rust in the mud in some battlefield. And we get a lot of information even from the things that were left to rust. I need more data to be convinced that these tools would not become "archaeological" evidence later. | |
| Mar 24, 2017 at 0:47 | comment | added | Mark | @TheBlackCat, they'll leave evidence, but it won't be good evidence. After something's been rusting for a millennium, you'll have a hard time telling that it was made from modern tool steel and not cheap medieval steel. | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 16:09 | comment | added | Mike Vonn | You overestimate the suitability of things like this. There are very few surviving examples because they were common, so people didn't preserve them, wear out, and rust. | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 16:06 | history | edited | Mike Vonn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2017 at 16:03 | comment | added | TheBlackCat | These are all things that would leave archeological evidence. | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 16:03 | history | answered | Mike Vonn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
