Not saying this knife will turn out to be a fake but seeing "Experts will soon conduct a metallurgical analysis" makes me just that little bit hesitant.
1) https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vast/unikt-jarnaldershalsb...
This is on display at the Historical Museum in Stockholm, which has a fancy vault-like "Gold room" [2] showing off lots of found treasures. Recommended.
[1]: https://historiska.se/upptack-historien/artikel/ostra-hoby-h...
I'd be surprised if it was 3-2.8 years old.
> The dagger isn’t Ukowski’s first big discovery. Last year, he found a broken papal bull—a pope’s engraved lead seal—that may have been linked to Clement VI.
As you also say:
> it could mean it's from I BCE, and it's been stylized to look ancient.
https://www.amazon.com/Detectorists-BBC-Series/dp/B06XC4TPTN
Here in the US, if you search along the roads, mostly you're just going to find trash.
I still haven't watched the movie yet.
You too could find something amazing, if you prepare the ground you intend to detect.
It's similar to the idea of sweeping up the edges of high travelled roads looking for palladium. But I think the palladium recovered wasn't worth the effort. But the gem stones might be, even if they're tiny.
In some places it belongs to the government, in others the nearest historical authority, in others to you and/or with conditions. In others like Ireland its illegal, so not too long ago someone found two bronze age axe heads and mailed them in anonymously, creating the problem that their National Museum needed to know where the items were found.
In other countries I would expect similar legislation
I wonder what alloy it was made of.
I am surprised it looks in such a good condition after 2,500 years buried in a lump of clay.
Hallstatt was bronze age, and if it was an outlier like meteoric iron (a) it would look like it (corrosion) and (b) it would have been called out.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Hallstatt-archaeological-si...
> if it was an outlier like meteoric iron (a) it would look like it (corrosion)
It is corroded. That's why it's green.
Which, yes, means it's bronze, but note that it's being described as an "iron age dagger" and they think it was manufactured in southern Europe and traded to the north. Iron wouldn't be surprising.