08-07-2006, 10:14 AM
Quote:Does any one have any clear pictures or diagrams of the configuration.
I am try to put together a baldric together at present.
From vase paint seemthey seem to hang at the hip other look more at chest level.
I was wonder if the baldric may have been adjustable.
From experiments we done in the Sydney Ancients in close formation it much easier to draw your sword in a tight formation when its at chest height. I interested in what others have in the way of Archaeological and experience evidence.
Craig,
Read my postings on page 1 of this thread. Someone else mentions the "leather baldric with squares cut out so it loks like a ladder" this is a good, well-documented type. Carrying the sword high and to the front
seems good to me, although my own xiphos is so long that even this has its problems!
