Early 1st cen. AD Germanic double edged sword

[ghandi]

Some stuff from my buddy Andreas Prill:

Hi Andreas. Just to clarify that: The blade of the sword in the first three pictures was made by Christian Böhling of Archeoschmiede and is modelled after the find B 408 from the cremation grave field at Puntensen (near Hamburg). Grip (lacking decorations) and scheath is made by me and everyting is part of my collection, though Andreas Prill owns a number of swords, IIRC, but not that one

Length of the original B 408 sword is given with 69,0 cm and from Fotos and drawings I supposed a back diameter of 3mm, which is fair enough compared to the length. Some other single edged swords from the cremation gravefield at Harsefeld (also near Hamburg)also have 3mm diameter and are even longer. That is, obviously, measured from the deformed corroded and unrestored finds.
There were no remains of a scheath in that grave (supposely) 237. But I modelled the sheath clamps and the sword chape after Martin Jahn´s (Die Bewaffnung der Germanen, 1916) depictions. So that was a bit freestyle on my part. In fact Jahn mentioned the chape to be out of wrought iron, while I had it cast in bronze. Furthermore I havn´t seen this style of chape associated with any of the single edged swords along the lower Elbe River by now, but please correct me, if missed something.

A fleece or something similar in the sheath is a nice idea. Is there a find to orientate on?



cheers

Robert