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Kai Lawson
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 Posted: Wed 16 Oct, 2019 9:09 am Post subject: Archeological Report for Pouan-les-Vallées |
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Does anyone have any information on the original report for the finds at Pouan? I’m specifically looking for works dealing with the discovered spatha, like dimensions and materials analysis, but I’ll take pretty much anything.
I can work with French and German, but publications or people to contact for more info in any language will work for me too.
Thanks in advance.
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Pedro Paulo Gaião
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| Len Parker wrote: | | https://www.persee.fr/doc/galia_0016-4119_1956_num_14_1_1456 Is that saying the blade with is 6.5cm wide? That hilt picture must be out of proportion. |
I got accurate measures for both the spatha and the langseax from Julian Ronneberger:
Seax: 60.2cm long, 30mm blade wide at base. The Spatha is 68mm wide at base and 873mm total length.
Yes, the blade is wider than the most wide English spatha:
"These measurements give a maximum blade-width range of 49-62.5cm, of which four were 52-57mm. Two, however, were 62-62.5cm wide, which compare to the two widest extant blades - those from the Prittlewell princely burial (60-62mm) and Sutton-Hoo mound 1 (c. 64mm)."
https://www.thegns.org/blog/when-is-a-sword-not-a-sweord
The Sutton Hoo sword also features the garnet and gold decoration seen in this Visigothic finding. It's pretty popular during the 5th to 7th centuries
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This is a standard topic
