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Longest pugio blades?
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I was wondering how long were the longest pugio blades found? The later blades (3th century "Künzing hoard" for example) seemed to be longer than the ones in the previous centuries. So are there examples over 30 cm blades etc? Then again when a waisted pugio blade is long enough to be a Mainz style gladius :wink: ?!
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Not sure if you could class them as pugios at all, but there are some blades in the Miks book which are way too short for swords, and some which look like they were made from a broken sword.
Considering the apparent periods, the ycouldmore likely be daggers than swords.
But not really pugios.
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