Pompeii Gladius and Scabbard - Work in Progress

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I think that the former presence of thin strips is also demonstrated by the faint horizontal inscribed lines which appear above and below the surviving nail/rivet heads. On the Guttmann locket I mentioned above (and on other lockets too) these faint lines are associated with the thin strips and may even have acted as positioning marks for the strips. If you look at these lines on the Nijmegen locket you will see that the spacing between them corresponds well with the normal width of the thin strips.


Crispvs

This is what I see too in the photograph Crispvs, but Robert has ready access to the actual artefact, and does not see the same thing.