07-24-2008, 10:23 PM
You need to do a search on RAT for Matt Lukes' experiments with using shaped punches for inlaid pugio plates. It's a very convincing argument for punched decoration which could then have the sides undercut, and be filled with brass, silver, or even niello or enamel.
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
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