THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
The pommel helps balance the sword and contributes to the structure of the handle.
When the blade is gone but the pommel remains, it can still reveal the presence of the weapon.
In an early colonial archaeological context, that can be enough to establish a connection with Spanish military activity.
The pommel therefore acts almost like a fingerprint.
Not an individual fingerprint, but a technological one.
It belongs to a particular military world.
THE 2025 FIND AND THE 2026 ANNOUNCEMENT
The chronology of the discovery is itself worth noting.
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