10-20-2009, 05:35 PM
This looks very much like a fake! Robert sent me a lot of pictures and drawings on plumbata so I could reproduce the technique to make them. From what I have learned, plumbata were very crudely forged weapons, the bards cut from the head by first forging a leafshaped head and then cutting the bards from the stem with a chisel or a pair of pliers (or a sharp fullering tool) and bending them out a bit. Hardly ever is this done symetrical. So this forger needs to studie his forging :lol: