"Liquid Fire" to Metal Sword in minutes! - A History of Ancient Britain - Ep4 - Preview - BBC Two 

To be pedantic, that's no ore, that's an alloy! Copper Ore looks nothing like that at first, and also going from ore to a bar of tin is quite a process, when you combine the two refined metals, then you'll get that!

+siouxsettewerks copper ore is malachite. malachite is green.

Well, what do you know? I learned something.

so true

Funny I thought one of the guys sounded kind of like Niall Horan. A lot of people mispronounce his name "Neil". :D

bronze? hahaha make rune pls

+Zack Silver But it starts at level 15?

The Veneficus modeler modeleur

+The Veneficus That's Skyrim, we're talking Runescape.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EEfvdB8kAWE.html check this forging of swords

because 57% of online commenters can't help but go off-topic immediately

Luke Genness now that is a sign of the times right there

+MakoRuu hes a hobbit clearly

Clearly.

طيط

Can't nobody read that shit.

+‫قبس الزهراء‬‎ شبك تضرط

+Stefanos Pleros It requires to be tempered in the blood of the enemy clans, so it will hunger for them D:

+Stefanos Pleros vampire confimed

Andrew Nelson xD

August Early yeah xD

+Equilibrium i guess watching it clot and lump together could remind one of blood, but it is a much more involved process than stabbing a guy

Did you finish it yet?

he hasnt

Yep

😁

As well as Thrand.

noone as far as i know makes and sells better, and also more accessible swords than neil, he is THE one man to approach for any european or near eastern bronze weapon or tool.

I think he thought that the molten bronze looked kinda like blood, then said "better than blood" as to say it looks cool, glowing all red hot and what not.

When you accidentally reveal your lust for blood #justvampirethings

yeah wtf, nothing is better than blood

PW Bandara "MERIDA!!! NUU SHARP OBJECTS"

he's a vampire, mortals like us would never understand, leave it be please.

Can anyone tell me which show is this and where can I get to see the series?

crichton55 It starts at 15 bro! Lol

Not if you go by Runescape standards.

Did you build a wooden pattern and flask? I can't figure out how they used their pattern in this video because they don't show it. Looks like they're just using clay with no flask, but they don't show how the pattern was applied and removed.🧐

Shadow Warrior Don't take bait.

Cyborgslayer404d bait?

Do you even grammar bro?

I turned my liquid cum into a sword, so yes. its possible

U R so stupid...Do u even get educated?

It's not only 1 guy

he didn't make it in the old times the sword was just an old thing in the old times and they are remaking it

lolz

Earline Spires haha its called a joke mate... They named him as "Ancient metalworker"

James Evans oh sorry

They are creating a Bronze Age style sword, that is a long time before Britain was ever a thing.

They're making it in modern day britain.

Celery God Oh, that's what you meant. Well, it still is a sword made for either historical researching or collecting purposes, so it would be perfectly fine

It was kind of a joke based around the fact that the U.K. is inventing new terms like knife violence since they banned everything except knives. People who originally were just gonna shoot someone (a cleaner less painful kill) now are forced to stab or slice them to death (a rough, bloody, painful kill). Now ask yourself, some dude's in your house about to kill you with something, would you rather it be a gun or a knife?

Celery God In what awful fucking neighborhood do you live that people just come into your house to murder you? Have you tried locking your door? And if I had the choice, I'd choose neither, ideally. Doesn't really matter

Do you even mordor bro?

One does not simply Mordor.

Clay

***** And ? I didn't saw your comment too so... ^^

Hours and even days and years are made of minutes if you want to be pedantic.

sense in your profile picture is non existent ;-)

Zara Hurriye uwotm8

You forgot the period.

Iron Amethyst A70 thats a nice profile pic u have, a very nice one

You misspelled "grandma"

yeah but what's the point of using a weaker weapon in a battle?

mass production

availability, technology, time, and the fact that it wasn't weaker. Good, work hardened bronze can be often harder than mild steel or iron. Iron was around for hundreds of years before anyone thought it could be useful, because its so bloody difficult to work. Bronze is much more simple to make, and is a lot better than people give it credit. I've enough research and experience to cast a bronze sword, but despite also researching steel forging, i know my first attempts would be shit. The first thing I made in bronze was an axe, and its still to this day in good nick, it's a good deal better than my mild steel hatchet. Also they barely oxidize, its been a year, I haven't polished it once, and its still shiny.

***** You sir proved who's the real moron here! Nothing more to say just that you do your research for real and then you might get this! lolz

people wouldn't use steel and iron, if bronze was better.

Now bronze swords were cast, yes. But they implied iron was also cast.

+Jacob Baumfalk I didn't hear anyone in the video actually implying this.

You could cast iron to get the initial billet to rough shape, then forge it after the fact as per normal; in fact this was done centuries ago to create what was known as crucible steel. Even if you didn't go all the way to steel, due to the process being deficient in some way, forming that initial billet to rough form and forging it afterwards means that it's no worse off than a cut-and-fold-then-hammered billet.

If you want it... there's no reason to not work towards getting it.

and also our ability to make youtube comments :)

Or to prevent people from acquiring possessions that belong to you. But let's not drag nuance into the conversation, this is the RU-vid comments section and we can't have that.

***** Yes it would, they didn't hardened it.

Who even uses in the last 300 years a bronze sword... it ain't durable enough, sure it's good for making a decoration.

+Bryar Pedersen some swords in the bronze age where hardened, but not with heat, but by hitting the egde with a hammer

xXHacksAndTipsXx No one in the last 3000 years has used a bronze sword... But in the bronze age it was the ONLY sword... And you know early bronze age swords wouldn't have been hardened because they hadn't figured it out yet... This particular episode was about the bronze age, and this part was about the very beginning...

xXHacksAndTipsXx yall mofos need skallagrim, a chap who has torture tested one of neils swords.

There isn't much more in the documentary. But try searching for Neil Burridge, he's the guy making the swords.

thanks