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Hello,
I am working about military equipment from the col of great St. Bernhard. Among that equipment I have been found an enormous socketed pilum which is about 87 cm long (see attachment).
Has anyone seen a direct parallel? Is it perhaps republican equipment?
Thanks for help in advance,
Greetings, Eckhard
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How about an angon? That's seen as a Late Roman variant of the pilum, even though this looks massive!
But I know that a Late Roman plumbata (leaded dart) was also found on the St. Bernard (maybe you have a good picture of that?), so I guess it could be from the same period.
Or not, of course. :wink:
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I have seen a drawing somewhere that looks similar to this, but it was perhaps of this same object.? I seem to recall it on here somewhere. :?
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Lots of Celtic graves from Northern Italy have socketed pilum in them. Might have been dropped by one of them ?
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Thank you very much for that informations.
Yes, that pilum has first been published in 1892 and yes, there exists although a plumbata. Thank you for the suggestions of celtic graves.
We have a lot of militaria from the Great St. Bernhard and it is planed to publish them all in spring (congres in Aosta).
I am just finishing the manuskript and will let you know when the ongres-acta are coming out.
Greetings, Eckhard
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Thank you very much Eckard.
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Hello,
My paper about military equipment from the Great St. Bernhard is going on and now i study about some sort of signa, which has been found four times on the GSB. I can't find any exact parallels and so I would be happy if anyone else could help me with an suggestion (or is is it perhaps a candelabra?)
Greetings, Eckhard
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Hello everybody,
The Congress-Acta about the Great St. Bernhard have now been published.
You can download them under the following link
http://www.minellono.it/archivio/alpis_poenina_pdf.zip
It is not only about military equipment and it is in french, but perhaps is someone anyway interested .
Greetings, Eckhard :wink:
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Laudes for offering the whole congress acta on the internet for free download. It is always nice to have an expert for roman millitary equipment here on RAT.
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A boat hook?
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