Gaesum-Soliferrum

[Komanos]

Part of the problem I have with you reasoning, Caturix, is that we find the gaesum/gaison mentioned in Roman and Greek sources written or referring to a time period well after the examples of Celtic all-iron javelins you've produced. I'm not doubting that the gaesum could be precisely the sort of weapon excavated from the late Halstatt burials in SW France, but I'm hesitant to connect a weapon from c.550-400 BC with written sources describing a potentially similar weapon from c.250-50 BC. I'd be much more comfortable with the connection if we had a similar weapon from a La Tene B-D context somewhere in, say, Central Europe, or central Gaul.