Recommended Exhibition & Book: The Sword - Form and Thought

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Iain

Is there a paper forthcoming to layout a refutation of the crucible steel hypothesis?

In due course a book with the papers presented at the Sword Form & Thought conference is expected to be published.

The presentation relied upon further radiographic studies of four of the swords examined by Dr. Williams that showed imperfections interpreted as indicative of forging from typical bloomery product. Concerns were raised on the (understandable) limitations in extent of metallographic sampling imposed on the original study by the owners of the objects and on interpretation difficulties for subsequent viewers from the images published without scale.

Here is the abstract from the conference program: