09-18-2017, 01:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-19-2017, 10:31 AM by Crispianus.
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Matt Bunker has seen it in person, it's fullered.
Rather hear that from Matt, but it wouldn't suprise if it was.... though there are some AS swords that are thought to be wiithout fullers...
It is. The Guard and Pommel belonged to the Germanic-Type 1 Spathae. Its closest parallels are probably actually going to be Gold hilt and Osterburken-Kemathen swords because of the Octagonal grip.
Do the Osterburken-Kemathen type have Octagonal grips?, from what I can see there is no surviving furniture...
An article with Two swords from Osterburken
Gold grip swords would be later... second half of the 5th century on... certainly would agree though on the similarity not just in the grip either...
Swords are from top down:
Deutschland, Pleidelsheim (Grab 71), Sindelfingen, Entingen (Grab von 1927), Gültlingen (Grab von 1889 und Grab von 1901) From: Die Alamannen.(Stuttgart 2001)
According to Matt Bunker the "Strap holder" is completely unrelated. Besides it looks nothing like contemporary scabbard sliders.
Well you have the link to the report above so you can make your own mind up on that, I wouldn't rule it out given the quality of the rest of the fixtures but think its unlikely...
Rather hear that from Matt, but it wouldn't suprise if it was.... though there are some AS swords that are thought to be wiithout fullers...
It is. The Guard and Pommel belonged to the Germanic-Type 1 Spathae. Its closest parallels are probably actually going to be Gold hilt and Osterburken-Kemathen swords because of the Octagonal grip.
Do the Osterburken-Kemathen type have Octagonal grips?, from what I can see there is no surviving furniture...
An article with Two swords from Osterburken
Gold grip swords would be later... second half of the 5th century on... certainly would agree though on the similarity not just in the grip either...
Swords are from top down:
Deutschland, Pleidelsheim (Grab 71), Sindelfingen, Entingen (Grab von 1927), Gültlingen (Grab von 1889 und Grab von 1901) From: Die Alamannen.(Stuttgart 2001)
According to Matt Bunker the "Strap holder" is completely unrelated. Besides it looks nothing like contemporary scabbard sliders.
Well you have the link to the report above so you can make your own mind up on that, I wouldn't rule it out given the quality of the rest of the fixtures but think its unlikely...
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
