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For how long where the pugio in use? What is the latest known reference or find? Did the soldiers still have it when the Legions left Britain?
I´m working on a mid 5th c warrior from scandinavia who has served in the Empire and returned. A really cool thing is that on Öland there is very gladii looking swords in at least two graves from the period 450 AD - 550 AD. Very intersesting.
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We certainly have third century finds (Coptall Court London and Kunzing Germany) but I do not recall any finds dated as late as 5th C.
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Single-edged knives have been found in graves combined with Roman military belt-fittings for the 4th-5th centuries.
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hi, I have longly studied pugiones in all their peculiarities, like when they "born" and "die" , where in the Empire were used and who used them , the building tecnology and so on.
My opinion is that , after the end of the 2th century , first half of the third , pugiones were no more in the roman panoplia , and they evolved in other kind of dagger.
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Quote:Single-edged knives have been found in graves combined with Roman military belt-fittings for the 4th-5th centuries.
I have a picture of one from the BM, sopmewhere
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lets us see it , Gaius.
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Quote:Urselius:15hlxtoe Wrote:Single-edged knives have been found in graves combined with Roman military belt-fittings for the 4th-5th centuries.
I have a picture of one from the BM, sopmewhere
Do you mean the 4th C "gallic" knives like these that are found from Pannonia to Britannia? Sometimes found in conjunction with other weapons and belt fittings.
Hmmmm...I'm obviously being a bit of a cabbage. Why does the image show as a link, not as the image itself?
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Roughly similat to that yes...I will post it once I get it on Photobucket.
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