09-25-2012, 07:10 AM
In later periods, pattern welding was moderately common. In earlier periods, it was uncommon but not completely unknown. There's one early example, without the surface featuring, from Chichester [mentioned in Bishop and Coulston and in Feugere], and another, with the surface featuring, from Amay.
Try to find Sim and Ridge, Iron for the Eagles and Vanden Berghe, "Some Roman Military Equipment of the First Three Centuries A.D. in Belgian Museums" in JRMES 7.
Try to find Sim and Ridge, Iron for the Eagles and Vanden Berghe, "Some Roman Military Equipment of the First Three Centuries A.D. in Belgian Museums" in JRMES 7.
