Sword... Hays Kansas

[ixKNIVESxi]

Found this about two and a half feet deep. Sorry about the bad backdrop haha. Ill upload some better pictures soon.

Sword has ONE singular pinhole located toward the back (non cutting) of the blade. It was clearly oiled or something because the right side of the handle is the only portion of the blade that remains unscathed by rust. It also had some sort of design but is so corroded that i cannot discern what it is..

It is incredibly fragile. Leading me to believe it could be of significant age.

 

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[oldmxrat]

Cool find, congrats!

 

[Almy]

A long sword over 2 feet deep must have taken some digging! I probably would have hauled on it and ruined it. Good going getting it out intact!

 

[ixKNIVESxi]

A long sword over 2 feet deep must have taken some digging! I probably would have hauled on it and ruined it. Good going getting it out intact!

Its actually broken where that pinhole is . It was hanging on by a thread and i separated it that way i wouldn't risk it falling off during the walk home and damaging the lower part even further haha. Thank you! Its sooo incredibly fragile though.

Need to find someone who can scan it or something. It definitely has some sort of etching in the bottom but years of wear have made sure its gona be a difficult job trying to render an image of it.

Might try transfer paper (like indiana jones and the shield marker haha)

 

[Almy]

The local veterinarian practice would have an x-ray machine.

 

[billb]

Nice find
Congratulations

 

[Ed144]

Your sword appears old enough to possibly have significant archaeological significance. I suggest you contact an Archaeologist in Kansas, perhaps with the state, to evaluate your artifact. It appears so old that perhaps it from the Francisco Vazquez de Coronado expedition of 1540-1542. An Archaeologist would be most interested in documenting the location and soil stratum.

 

[billb]

Found this about two and a half feet deep. Sorry about the bad backdrop haha. Ill upload some better pictures soon.

Sword has ONE singular pinhole located toward the back (non cutting) of the blade. It was clearly oiled or something because the right side of the handle is the only portion of the blade that remains unscathed by rust. It also had some sort of design but is so corroded that i cannot discern what it is..

It is incredibly fragile. Leading me to believe it could be of significant age.

Great recovery …try to contact a museum I’m sure they would like to see it..Good luck…
We used to visit Ellsworth Ks..years ago

 

[ixKNIVESxi]

Great recovery …try to contact a museum I’m sure they would like to see it..Good luck…
We used to visit Ellsworth Ks..years ago

Tanky!

 

[ixKNIVESxi]

Soooo..... I found the sword after looking under a piece of chicken wire that I found. Under the chicken wire, there was a layer of bricks under the layer of bricks, There was a layer of pipe stacked like lincoln logs. Under the pipes stacked like lincoln logs , there was another layer of bricks. Someone had built a retaining wall between a mulberry tree and a corrugated piece of pipe meant for sewage.

This may sound outlandish.... but i was looking into the missing Honjo Masamune sword and noticed that Sgt. COLDY BIMORE had taken a bundle of swords from Meiji metro police station in 1946 after the SECOND world war ended. Among the bundle of 14 swords was another sword called Little Crow i believe.

The reason im saying all this is because. SGT COLDY BIMORE didnt exist... however he was in the 7th cavalry regiment, second batallion. Their insignia is two crossed cutlasses with a seven above and a two on the bottom; centered between the crossing of the swords. I have actually dug out a piece of another sword blade in the same hole.

There is a town a few miles away with street called Riley street. I noticed that while i was examining a map of the town, Riley street ends around where i found it.

I decided for chits and giggles id draw a ninety degree angle at riley street and move it 72 degrees to the right. I went to the corner of the street. Followed the trajectory and walked 72 paces and ended up right at the hole i dug the sword out of.

Fort Riley, Kansas is where the 7th Cavalry Regiment was founded....

Coincidence? Most likely. But one HELL of a strange scenario right?!!

i know its not the Masamune, because the handle doesnt fishbelly like a katana does.... but could it be an earlier japanese sword? One that could have been bundled with the rest?

The retaining wall that was built also furthered my intrigue.... its right by an old loading dock by the RR tracks. So did they build the wall before? Or AFTER the sword was buried? Or was the sword there all along. Again, i found this sword at around a depth of two feet.

Strange indeed. The sword also had gold leaf on the handle which has since been rubbed away due to my handling of it. I do have a picture of it though which i will post soon.

This honestly in my opinion has to be the closest relatable story to where those swords could have ended up.

Maybe Coldy Bimore was from Kansas? Maybe from Colby? Colby Dimore? We may never know.

Thoughts and comments absolutely welcome.

 

[ixKNIVESxi]

I DO think it is a shame: the condition of the sword. Yet I don't think that a sword buried in the ground kn the late 40's would have suffered such severe deterioration.... especially if it was such a well made sword.

Most swords hold up fairly well even when dug out of the ground from what i've seen. This one has had layers eaten away, and one could easily snap it into hundreds of pieces just using their fingers. Not the handle though. The handle is TOUGH.

I have a feeling that maybe there was a wooden handle and that the bottom of the blade was well oiled before it was inserted back into the handle. Hence the lack of rust at the very bottom where the etching is located.

I Found other strange things in that hole as well.

One being a deep royal blue sash with medieval looking diamondish frill on the ends. With patches of varying shapes sewn into it.

I am soon to return to said spot to further the dig. There has to be more!

 

[Gare]

GREAT FIND !!!