02-12-2010, 06:16 PM
Can we be sure? Doubtful. At least in everything I've read the two fragments found in the grave are identified as parts of a single javelin, and reconstructed as such in several of the drawings I've looked up. If it is a single javelin, it is far beyond the length of any other 4th-3rd century saunion heads I know and closer in many respects to a soliferrum, though I've not seen a high quality image of the fragments. Perhaps someone else knows.
And let's recall, I'm the one asking you for any representative or archaeological evidence whatsoever that the all-iron javelin persisted outside Iberia during the La Tene period, or rather, during the period when we find our first literary mentions of the gaison/gaesum. This is the closest possible example I've located thus far.
And let's recall, I'm the one asking you for any representative or archaeological evidence whatsoever that the all-iron javelin persisted outside Iberia during the La Tene period, or rather, during the period when we find our first literary mentions of the gaison/gaesum. This is the closest possible example I've located thus far.
Paul
USA
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