06-30-2009, 11:19 AM
Crispvs. I think we may be at cross purpose in regard to dagger handles where I was trying to point out that where only a dagger blade had been found, there would not have been handle plates or these would have also have been found with the blade regardless of what the tang may or may not have been.
Then what I was trying to point out with pictures of my dagger plates and my suggestion to Adrian about a hole going thro' a tang we find that with the Titelberg this is indeed the case, and also it has holes that go thro' the shoulders of the blade.
Then in my reply to Cesar as also I would like to point out to most re-enactors a pugio would not have had a solid steel or bronze handle, infact the information that I am trying to pass on to others is that a pugio would only have been in the region of 25% of a Kilo in weight as indeed are those that I produce.
Infact a Pugio handle can be produced totaly separate of a blade and may well have been done so in Roman times, for very much like Helmet production in those times there would have been helmet makers and then others who would have decorated them as also with daggers,swords, and many other things for the Roman Fabrica worked in this manner.
Then what I was trying to point out with pictures of my dagger plates and my suggestion to Adrian about a hole going thro' a tang we find that with the Titelberg this is indeed the case, and also it has holes that go thro' the shoulders of the blade.
Then in my reply to Cesar as also I would like to point out to most re-enactors a pugio would not have had a solid steel or bronze handle, infact the information that I am trying to pass on to others is that a pugio would only have been in the region of 25% of a Kilo in weight as indeed are those that I produce.
Infact a Pugio handle can be produced totaly separate of a blade and may well have been done so in Roman times, for very much like Helmet production in those times there would have been helmet makers and then others who would have decorated them as also with daggers,swords, and many other things for the Roman Fabrica worked in this manner.
Brian Stobbs
