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Ernesto is expected to be a hurricane, head north, as predicted earlier, staying far off the Florida coast. It does, however, look like we'll be getting a somewhat higher surf before long.
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“The gauntlet would never have been left lying in the streets in medieval Oslo. This is an extremely expensive object. An ordinary person would never own something like this. The only way you can find things like this is if they’re buried or lost in some way. On the seabed, no one could have gotten hold of it,” he says.
What triggered the metal detector was just a small part of the gauntlet. Most of what remains is an imprint, where you can see remnants of iron plates or lamellae. The imprint is so clear that Hegdal concludes it must be a gauntlet...
Due to the quantity of finds, Hegdal does not believe the weapons ended up on the seabed in the harbour by chance.
“We’ve found many daggers, as well as swords and axes. Clearly, these are not things people simply lose. Finding so many weapons in the harbour suggests it was systematic. There must be a reason they ended up on the seabed,” he says...
Here is that link for more about that.
From another source, below is a complete gauntlet.
“It’s an old fairy tale that medieval armor was incredibly heavy,” he says. It was, in fact, relatively light and flexible. A remarkable example is this right-hand gauntlet recently discovered near Kyburg Castle in northern Switzerland in the cellar of a medieval building that burned around the middle of the fourteenth century....
For more about that see Artifacts - Medieval Iron Gauntlet - Archaeology Magazine - May/June 2024
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