Old Aalten

The Spanish Sword ‘Tholeta’

Spanish sword 'Tholeta' from the Eighty Years' War, Bredevoort

In 1964, during excavation work for the construction of a new workshop on the premises of the Klein Nibbelink smithy, various items were discovered, including remnants of walls, moat fill, wooden posts, and an iron fire grate. However, the most impressive find was a Spanish sword from the Eighty Years’ War, bearing the inscription ‘Tholeta’, the Latin name for the city of Toledo in Spain.

Johan Klein Nibbelink currently has the sword in his possession and tells about it in the video below.

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