01-22-2018, 07:06 PM
Ring Pommels were retro fitted to gladivs and spatha in a roman contex. This is what I was meaning in my post 
As you are looking at the reign of Aurelius, in my opinion this is when they changed and made a longer gladivs not semi spatha, he had a hard fight in Gemania and had to counter the fact the Romans no longer faced barbarians with there own fighting techniques, but a enemy now using roman swords and adopting the fighting methods, looking at images of soldiers with sword and scabbard in the 3rd AD a ruff guess would be a blade up to 24" inchs. Most scabbards fall just bellow the knee, sorry don't have images to show at hand. Wheel chapes, peltate chapes are the most common depicted with scabbard slide. I don't know what you mean by the different tips 
can you show a image.
This is a ring pommel from Brittania blade length 505mm width 52.4mm 2nd - 3rd AD
My own first quarter 2nd AD
Hope this answers some of your query
Regards Brennivs
As you are looking at the reign of Aurelius, in my opinion this is when they changed and made a longer gladivs not semi spatha, he had a hard fight in Gemania and had to counter the fact the Romans no longer faced barbarians with there own fighting techniques, but a enemy now using roman swords and adopting the fighting methods, looking at images of soldiers with sword and scabbard in the 3rd AD a ruff guess would be a blade up to 24" inchs. Most scabbards fall just bellow the knee, sorry don't have images to show at hand. Wheel chapes, peltate chapes are the most common depicted with scabbard slide. I don't know what you mean by the different tips can you show a image.This is a ring pommel from Brittania blade length 505mm width 52.4mm 2nd - 3rd AD
My own first quarter 2nd AD
Hope this answers some of your query
Regards Brennivs
Woe Ye The Vanquished
Brennvs 390 BC
When you have all this why do you envy our mud huts
Caratacvs
Centvrio Princeps Brennivs COH I Dacorivm (Roma Antiqvia)
Brennvs 390 BC
When you have all this why do you envy our mud huts
Caratacvs
Centvrio Princeps Brennivs COH I Dacorivm (Roma Antiqvia)
