[Mark A Smith]

I was visiting Harvey Wither's site, and was amazed to see a Celtic Broadswoad and Scabbard offered for sale.
As he says, most examples of these swords with scabbards intact are in national museums or important private collections.

The hilt style is of typical La Tene form and comprising bronze mounts. Blade of large and wide proportions - blade width of around two inches. Scabbard appears to be made of iron and is in excellent shape. For £7995.00 it's too rich for my blood but one can drool, and learn from looking at the detail of the photos.

It's not every day we can see one of these up close.

[Johan Gemvik]

Excellent sword.
Too bad I don't have the money either, I could give it a good loving home. Hopefully someone else will.

The tang seems surprisingly thin for a cutting sword, are they all like this from this period?
I also notice it's a hollow diamond cross section, it seems to me then that swords went from hollow diamond to central fuller and back to hollow diamond over the ages. Very interesting, I expect it has to do with adding stiffness to the blade to increase strength and resilience, first in a soft iron sword and then later again to battle ever stronger armour. But that's just a theory, I know a lot of you guys here subscribe to the "swords can't cut through armour unless you're super human" club. Still wouldn't stop swordsmiths of the age from trying to make swords do that though, so it could still be the intended reason regardless if it really could.

[Andrew Maxwell]