L’épée de l’Âge du Bronze final de Chauny (Aisne) et les épées à poignée métallique de la fin de l’Âge du Bronze dans le nord-ouest de l’Europe

The Chauny (Aisne) sword is a part of the very few solid-hilted swords known in Northern France and more generally in Northwest Europe. Dating back to the end of the Bronze Age, it was considered as lost. Its recent rediscovery in the collection of the Société académique de Saint-Quentin (Aisne) enabled us to perform new morphological and technological observations. This study also offers the opportunity to present an overview of the other Bronze Age solid-hilted swords from Northwest Europe, covering Northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and especially the ones dating back to the same period as the Chauny sword. Although this area can be considered as a periphery in Bronze Age solid-hilted swords distribution, the typological diversity of the swords found in the region suggests connections with areas where more of these weapons were found, such as Southern Scandinavia or the North Alpine region.

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