Semispathae

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Hate to be a Necroposter, but I found a Semispatha under their "Roman Empire" section (in "swords") on this:

http://replik-online.de/en/index.html

They site the find to mid-3rd century on the Germanic Limes, does anyone know of this?

[M. Val. Naso]

MMFA: there was a big semispatha-hoard in Künzing.

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Just found some pics on Google, that's pretty cool.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Miks shows quite a few blades which could well be semispatha.

[M. Val. Naso]

Yeah, and there are quite a lot, where you can see, that they are not just broken-off spathae, but made exactly in a smaller form. Problem is, they are all mid-3rd century. I keep my hopes up, based on Vegetius

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Thinking of Archaeology, are there any Roman weapon/armor finds at all from the 5th century? Particularly those from the western Empire.

EDIT: I know there are couple spangenhelm finds from the eastern empire dating to that time.

[M. Val. Naso]

The Miks book has a lot of blades...

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Where can I find the Miks book?

[M. Val. Naso]

You can order it for about 150-170 euros.

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Definitely not ordering a 200 Dollar book. Where can I find it on Google Images?

[M. Val. Naso]

You can't. It's a 1000 pages long book in german, it is not on the internet.

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Well, what I mean is that can I find images of the swords on the internet?

[M. Val. Naso]

It lists blades by types, and shows you drawings of them. You simply can't google them.

[Virilis]

BUMP! Any new views on this semi-spatha question? I would like to have a some kind of 4-5th c. sidearm with my spatha, the seaxes are a bit too late inventions in this context? I know there are some basic knives from 4-5th c. but I want a tool which scares the heck out of the enemies!

[Flavivs Aetivs]

First Seax found as a sidearm with a Spatha I can think of is Pouan. I think in all likelyhood that in Early 5th century Gaul soldiers may have carried Seaxes as a sidearm.