Talk:Iron Age sword

I've noticed that there aren't many resources for citations in the article. A source I found that you might want to check out is a journal article called . It was published by the Archaeological Institute of America and discusses topics such as technological advancements, societal changes, and the history and archaeology of the Iron Age period in Europe. Alejandro1123 (talk) 04:14, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

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I would tentatively suggest leaving these separate, rather than merging them. The Celtic sword, with its distinctive anthropomorphic or semi-anthropomorphic hilt style, and certain aspects of the blade design, seems to be fairly unique. The Celtic Sword article does want for some expansion and pictures, however. Gammaflightleader 18:58, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Celtic sword will be a valid article if somebody takes the time to write it. Until then, what little information we have might as well reside here. I do invite you to add a more detail discussion. dab (𒁳) 19:46, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

This page had two seperate links to the kopis page. I removed one. Spartan198 (talk) 01:11, 30 May 2008 (UTC) Spartan198

swinging the sword
Some info you could add about celtic swords. They where not very sharp and where quite heavy so a lot of celtic warriors swinged them around like a flail to build momentmun. Also have a look at the rtw mod europ barbaiuom it has some decent infomation on weapons of the late iron age. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.131.125.48 (talk) 19:38, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Confusing/erroneous sentances
The first paragraph has some confusing language in it- "This made them comparable or only slightly better in terms of strength and hardness to bronze swords. So they could still bend during use, rather than spring back into shape." Besides the obvious grammatical error, I'm left wondering what the contributor meant by "could still bend during use, rather than spring back into shape." This needs to be clarified, or readers will get wrong information or will also be confused on what it means. Could someone please clean this up? Zeke64 (talk) 18:30, 14 July 2011 (UTC)Zeke64
 * I presume it means when used it would bend and stay bent. Why not edit it yourself? Dougweller (talk) 18:47, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Chronology of bladed weapons
In this article there are many references. Iberian warriors used to bent their swords using the head and both arms till the extrems touched their shoulders. The blades were perfectly elastic... I think the center of production were at Pyrenees  mountains...Pau Nemo (talk) 02:18, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Iron vs steel
At the moment, the lead has a sentence which reads "Eventually smiths learned that by adding an amount of carbon (added during smelting in the form of charcoal) to the iron, they could produce an improved alloy (now known as steel)". I believe this is an erroneous (but common) misconception. When people hear that "steel is an alloy of iron and carbon" they naturally assume that carbon is added to iron to make steel, but the reality is that smelted iron, and therefore most iron products, already contain a lot of carbon and it has to be reduced in order to make steel. This seems to confirmed by the steelmaking article ("To become steel, it must be reprocessed to reduce the carbon to the correct amount"), as well as related articles on steel making processes, and the article on steel itself. I am not an expert on metallurgy, but it's something that I've been researching lately per my own confusion, and would defer to another opinion before changing or removing the sentence. 71.223.224.65 (talk) 17:16, 1 February 2021 (UTC)