What is the Hod Hill spatha - IA or Roman?

[Caballo]

I'll look forward to that ! Although, it may not disprove a Celtic auxillary prescence.

Another thought- if we could get the measurements of the groove in the hilt guards , we then have the width of the actual sword blade for reconstruction...and combined with the length of the Hod Hill sword we could have the dimensions of the original swords.....