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Aestiorum Gladii. Swords in the West Balt Circle in the Roman Period
Volume 8 (2007): Weapons, Weaponry and Man (In memoriam Vytautas Kazakevičius), pp. 85–94
Wojciech Nowakowski  

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Pub. online: 9 November 2007      Type: Article      Open accessOpen Access

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20 January 2007
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7 June 2007
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9 November 2007

Abstract

In the mid-1990s the finds from the West Balt Circle, whose peoples could be identified as the Aestii of Tacitus, included only ten swords dating back to the Roman Period. Excavations conducted in the following years and the retrieved part of the Prussia Museum in Königsberg, as well as numerous other archive materials, have not significantly increased this number. Therefore, it must be assumed that the Aestii rarely used this weapon, regardless of its great appreciation by other barbarians. This might be presumed to have been related to the specific techniques of mounted combat, in which, apart from spears, axes and long battle-knives were used.

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swords Aestii West Balt Cultural Circle

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