08-09-2007, 09:51 PM
Quote:Is the Brass plate smaller than the diameter of the guard?? Then inset?? I guess I goofed!!
Yes, this is the way most of the originals were constructed. But there could be some out there were there was no brass plate or the plate wasn't inset.
On the Legio XX website you can read this:
Quote:The gladius hilt was made of wood, bone, or ivory, and a thin brass plate was usually set into the bottom of the guard (though it could simply be set flat against the guard, or be lacking altogether).
But I don't know on what originals Matthew Amt based himself to say this.
Vale,
