Fulham Scabbard Finds

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

I mean the top one is identical of the central right one. The central left one is identical to the top one of the bottom picture. :roll:

[Conal]

The Fulham sword is not a straight sided blade Cornal I have photographs of this sword the scabbard frame and the decoration plates, these I purchased from the British Museum many years ago for reproduction of this sword. The blade is 7cm at the shoulder then comes in over the first inch to 6cm it tapers ever so slightly to 5cm where it's point begins. There is also that this sword does not have a chamfer that runs the length of the blade, the chamfer only goes from the point to some 7 inchs'up the blade or one third of it's length where it then has a gentle curve section all the way to the shoulder. The scabbard however is straight sided and has to be to contain it's type of decoration plates or rather it's central plate that is rectangular.

Thanks Brian , that is exactly what I was after!! Still not technically what I'd waisted though :wink:

Ok... I may have to stand corrected, it could be a badly made Mainz :?

[sulla felix]

Thanks Alexander - if we keep this thread going for long enough we might have a complete scan of the Miks book 8)

Interesting group of blades for the Fulham sub-type :?

[sulla felix]

Miks's book is apparently being reprinted.

The diagram above clearly shows to me that many of the blade shapes villified in the past as being too innacurate for re-enactment are clearly sound, as long as they don't have those stupid V-shaped fullers at the top of the blade.

Look at 10!! Show up at a group with that and you'd be tasting caligae!

I'm off to take a look on Ebay. :wink:

I reckon 10 is a two man sword - the Roman equivalent of a Weapon of Mass Destruction?

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

The tiberius and a couple of others just look like mainz's to me..period.....

[M. CVRIVS ALEXANDER]

Miks's book is apparently being reprinted.

The diagram above clearly shows to me that many of the blade shapes villified in the past as being too innacurate for re-enactment are clearly sound, as long as they don't have those stupid V-shaped fullers at the top of the blade.

Look at 10!! Show up at a group with that and you'd be tasting caligae!

I'm off to take a look on Ebay. :wink:

Number 10 Pompeii sub-type swords are dated about to the mid. 2nd century, as far as I briefly checked. BTW, I noticed that at least one of the 2nd century pompeii (different sub-type though) did have that V-shaped ricasso..

[PhilusEstilius]

I have been looking at the pictures you show Cesar and I might disagree just a little bit with reference to the central left one looking the same as the top one in the lower picture. The theme is the same however look more closely and you find that the position of the helmet next to the shield differs, one helmet is on the shield the other is to the right and also the victories differ. There is also a difference with the reclining figure where the angle of his spear is not the same or indeed the shield he is leaning on. I even can see very slight differences in the others also when I look at the borders, a right hand border hits the decoration where the other does not. The themes are the same however not made by the same punches.