The Pouan Scramasax.

[Medicus matt]

The Pouan Scramasax.

The what, sorry? :wink: (I found a quote somewhere that seemed to indicate that 'scramasax' was another name for a type of javellin, otherwise known as a francisca..shurely shome mishtake?)

It was found with the sheath fittings in situ wasn't it? A nice gold/garnet mouth and chape and nothing else. Mouth, chape, length of blade and lack of any obvious suspension fittings (which, given the overall good reasonable state of preservation of the iron blades of both knife and sword, you'd have expected to survive) would lead me to summise that it'd hang down rather than being slung horizontally, perhaps with a two point adjustable suspension (there were several buckles found in the same grave, including at last one small one that has a nice curve to it that would allow it to fit neatly across the front of a shaped sheath, much as the lower point buckle from the Sutton Hoo sword does .
However, given that the sword found with it was simply suspended via two runners on the face of the scabbard, maybe the knife sheath was simply held in place in a loop in a belt, something that works well enough with a solid wooden (rather than soft leather) sheath.

The style and size of the mouth and chape seem to me to indicate that, like the sword, the knife was contained in a wood-cored sheath but I'm not aware of any publications detailing an analysis of either the blade or the fittings that might have given some indication as to the construction.

Go on then, show us a picture.