Roman General’s Spatha

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Roman General’s Spatha

A beautifully made General’s sword using extremely elaborated hilt, fully bedecked sculpture and tainted oak.  Blade made of skip steel.  This reproduction is handmade by Historical Armouries.

The spatha was a capture of direct sword using a long meaning, measuring between 0.75 and 1 m,in use throughout 1st millennium Europe and the territory of the Roman Empire awaiting regarding AD 600. You can view further details here http://stuffantiques.net. Later swords through regarding AD 1000 are recognizable derivatives, although not spathae.

The predecessor of the spatha is the 3rd century BC (La Tène) Celtic sword. The spatha of literature appears in the Roman Empire in the 1st century as a firearm of presumed Germanic auxiliaries[dubious †discuss] and went on from there to become a flag driving infantry firearm, relegating the gladius to use as a illumine infantry firearm. The spatha apparently cleanly replaced the gladius ...
... in the front ranks, generous the infantry more spread in thrusting.

Archaeologically many instances of the spatha have been found in Britain and Germany. It was worn extensively by Germanic warriors but whether it came from the Pompeii gladius or the longer Celtic swords or served as a mold for the countless broadswords and Viking swords of Europe is a extremely speculative subject. The spatha remained lowbrow throughout the Migration interlude. It could have evolved into the knightly sword of the High internal Ages from regarding 1100, but the large number of sword types that appeared during the interlude are demanding to relate for certain. limited niceties of their manufacture and the models worn by their manufacturers wait largely uncharted.

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