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I think there are the Nydam Bog ones. Beautigul pics!
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Nydam, Kragehul, Vimose - the lot! beautiful!!
best go to his home page ([url:31jyz4no]http://membres.lycos.fr/bronzeage/[/url]), you'll find many more links to this collection!
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One in the iron age section looks pretty like the Sutton Hoo sword.
Iron Age artifacts (circa 500BC-800AD).
Marcus
There is a pair of Germaic styled spathae near the end in the same section. Could be as late as 6th/7th century though rather than 4th/5th. What kind of unit did you wish to portray?
There are also quite a few options for you in the temporary exhibition section. Again though the look is very Germanic. Loved the pugios. (what is the plural?) And the sword shown before the pugios certainly looks traditional Roman.
Temporary exhibition: Sejrens Triumph
(stone age to late Roman Iron age)
Well found indeed.
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Andrew,
I don't know, but they could well be just that. Most of the Vimose swords are 3rd to 4th century?
Those V-shaped things indeed look like the whatshallIcallums from a rowing boat.
The Vimose mail coat may be only that tight around the neck because that's how the museum people displayed it?
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Marcus,
Looks lenticular to me.
Robert,
Thanks for the info on the whatshallIcallums. You could well be right. :lol:
On the regular Roman spatha. The shape I agree is regular Roman, I just have never seen or even heard of a metallic grip assembly before on a Roman sword (Mind you my knowledge on late Roman swords is hardly comprehensive). It looks like some sort of cupric alloy to me?
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Hi Andrew. I don't know about metalic grips. Something else about grips. Holger Ratsdorf told me bone grips, were very rare on late roman spathae. The most common was a grip out of leather, twisted around the tang. Is this indeed the case?
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FYI, the whatchamacallits for oars are called "oarlocks" or "rowlocks"... A simple peg without the V is a "tholepin," Latin scalmus (from Gk. skalmos).