International audienceThe 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 d...