The Sword Excalibur | The Truth Behind

the story describes a gleaming sword
thrust into a huge stone and only the
rightful king of Britain could pull it
out the fiercest warlords and the
strongest soldiers tried in vain to free
the blade but then young Arthur stepped
forward
it was easy because Arthur is the
rightful and true king of the Britons
Marianna hata meets with a metal worker
who uses the practices of the Ancients
she’s investigating the origins of the
sword in the stone story what I want to
do is go and find out more about ancient
sword making techniques because I think
that might cast some light on this
element of of Arthur’s legend I says the
sword we’re going to cast would look
something like this when it’s finished
that is beautiful is this the kind of
sword for a warrior king definitely they
are thinking swords belong to the
aristocracy they’re very expensive piece
of technology a charcoal furnace heats a
crucible containing tin and copper to
form molten bronze
the bronze is poured into a single stone
mold that forms the sword what we’re
going to do now is draw the sword out of
the stone mold we’ll draw the sword out
of the stone II don’t get for definite
that’s absolutely incredible
from that you can see where the myth
from the sword and the stone comes from
yes
metallurgy is a pretty magical process
you take this raw material and with
skilled hands you can transform it into
a glittering weapon that might be and I
have to give it some weight that might
be the origin of the story of the sword
in the stone