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tiny York sword: votive?
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you may have seen the archaeologist with the tiny sword from that recent York dig last week. here is a better image of it. Votive offering?
Richard Campbell
Legio XX - Alexandria, Virginia
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#2
Definitive proof of the existence of leprechauns.
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(01-20-2016, 01:17 PM)richsc Wrote: you may have seen the archaeologist with the tiny sword from that recent York dig last week. here is a better image of it. Votive offering?

It's not from York, but rather from a settlement at Scotch Corner (which the media are claiming is 'new' but I know of at least two digs on it in the past, one of them by me!), where the A66 leaves Dere Street to cross the Pennines (so an important Roman road junction). My theory is that it was made for a very very small legionary ;-)

Mike Bishop
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(01-21-2016, 10:41 AM)mcbishop Wrote:
(01-20-2016, 01:17 PM)richsc Wrote: you may have seen the archaeologist with the tiny sword from that recent York dig last week. here is a better image of it. Votive offering?

It's not from York, but rather from a settlement at Scotch Corner (which the media are claiming is 'new' but I know of at least two digs on it in the past, one of them by me!), where the A66 leaves Dere Street to cross the Pennines (so an important Roman road junction). My theory is that it was made for a very very small legionary ;-)

Mike Bishop

Could it have been for the equivalent of a Roman action figure?

G. I. Josephus?
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A tiny little roman spy
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Gelu I.
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#6
Back when house elves were armed...
Cheryl Boeckmann
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Quote:Could it have been for the equivalent of a Roman action figure?

G. I. Josephus?
With realistic life-like pilum-throwing arm action.
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(01-21-2016, 09:38 PM)Dan Howard Wrote:
Quote:Could it have been for the equivalent of a Roman action figure?

G. I. Josephus?
With realistic life-like pilum-throwing arm action.

But does it have kung-fu grip?
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#9
Apparently it was dug up by a smurf?
Robert Vermaat
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#10
It could be related to the Roxolani Pygmies who took a wrong turn on the Ister, crossed Britain, and reached Maine where we have the famous Boothbay Harbor Roman Sword Museum.
Alan J. Campbell

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#11
Is a matter of perspective. I think that the sword is a normal gladius what is wrong in the pictures are the hands. They belong to an Giant. Probably at least 3 m (9ft) tall.
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#12
That explains why the hands are blue. The sword is being held by a Nordic frost giant.
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