Sinhala / Sri Lankan Swords?

ariel · 2nd February 2014, 03:52 AM

Dear Prasanna,
In your post #254 you showed an old and presumably Sri Lankan patissa.
Quite some time ago I posted 2 of my patissas:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=6012

Do you think they might be Sri Lankan as well? Will you hazard a guess re. their age?

They are made out of bloomery steel, the earliest and the most primitive way of obtaining enough material to hammer into a blade.

2nd February 2014, 03:52 AM	#11
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	Dear Prasanna, In your post #254 you showed an old and presumably Sri Lankan patissa. Quite some time ago I posted 2 of my patissas: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=6012 Do you think they might be Sri Lankan as well? Will you hazard a guess re. their age? They are made out of bloomery steel, the earliest and the most primitive way of obtaining enough material to hammer into a blade.