01-15-2007, 02:11 PM
It just could be a pugio blade, with the two copper rivets for securing the hilt-plates. If the hilt was organic rather than metal (as with the Velsen pugio) then that might explain things. All assuming that it was found in a Roman context, of course.
Just a possibility.
Vale,
Celer.
Just a possibility.
Vale,
Celer.
Marcus Antonius Celer/Julian Dendy.