Pages: 81-90 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp2548190
In Kazakhstan, burials of the Hunnic era have been studied in tiny quantities. The article presents scientific findings on an iron sword discovered in the Karaganda region. The weapon was found in the burial of a young woman, buried in the mound of an early Saka period barrow. Iron arrowheads of the Hunnic era were also found. The date of the sword is determined within the 4th—5th centuries BC.
A single-edged sword with a long and narrow blade, a pin-shaped pommel, and a diamond-shaped guard is typologically close to broadswords. Research has shown that the weapon was forged from a bloom. The carbon content is between 0.008 and ~0.2 mas%. Low hardness and relatively high plasticity provided this weapon with quite optimal qualities under the conditions of that time.
Keywords: Central Kazakhstan, Hunnic period, iron single-edged sword, metallographic analysis, Vickers hardness
Information about authors:
Arman Beisenov (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Margulan Institute of Archaeology. Dostyk Ave., 44, Almaty, 050100, Kazakhstan
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-2524-264X
Alexander Panichkin (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation JSC, Satbayev University. Shevchenko St., 29, Almaty, 050010, Kazakhstan
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-2403-8949