ROMAN SPATHA,GLADIUS SWORD,COLLECTIBLE,MILITARIA,SCA

Collectible,Ancient style, SCA LARP ARMOURY

LARP ROMAN SPATHA  with scabbard

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SOLID  18 GAUGE STEEL AND WOOD

Scabbard is made of Natural Leather & Brass

The spatha was a type of straight sword with a long point however,

those carried by Roman Cavalry had a rounded tip which prevented accidental stabbing of one's foot, nd being flung off one's horse

It measured between 0.75.in use throughout 1st millennium Europe and the territory of the Roman Empire until about AD 600

 Later swords through about AD 1000 are recognizable derivatives, though not spathae.

The predecessor of the spatha is the 3rd century BC (La Tène) Celtic sword.

The spatha was used in gladiator fights and in war.

The spatha of literature appears in theRoman Empire in the 1st century as a weapon of presumed Germanic auxiliaries and went on from there to become a standard heavy infantry weapon,

relegating the gladius to use as a light infantry weapon. 

The spatha apparently replaced the gladius in the front ranks, giving the infantry more reach when thrusting.

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