TY - GEN N1 - ill. ; 29 cm N2 - This paper focuses on a sword discovered during post-1945 archaeological excavations in Gdańsk, now stored as a deposit in the Castle Museum in Malbork (Dep. 76). The weapon underwent technological examinations by J. Piaskowski, who said that the sword was an example of Late Medieval mass manufacture of cheap and low quality weaponry with the use of cast refined iron. This assumption was maintained in later scholarship. As doubts concerning the authenticity of the sword were raised by visual examination, it was decided to repeat technological examinations. It was found out that the metal in the blade was in fact cast. However, qualitative EDS analysis of slag inclusions demonstrated a very high presence of S and Mn, which testifies to the fact that the metal in the blade was obtained with the use of one of late 19th or early 20th c. steelmaking processes (the Bessemer or Martin process). Based on this and on some external features of the sword (traces of lathe processing, punched typescript letters on the tang), it was assumed beyond doubt that the sword was a pre-1945 replica L1 - http://rcin.org.pl/Content/54822/PDF/WA308_75276_PIII368_A-sword-from-Gdansk_I.pdf M3 - Text J2 - Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae. Fasc. 27 (2014) PY - 2014 EP - 110 KW - archaeometallurgy KW - technological examinations KW - sword KW - weaponry KW - pageant replica A1 - Żabiński, Grzegorz A1 - Stępiński, Janusz PB - Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Polish Academy of Sciences. Łódź Branch VL - 27 CY - Łódź SP - 99 T1 - A sword from Gdańsk – a technological revolution or a pageant replica? UR - http://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/54822 ER -