Hi All !

First post here. I am from The Netherlands. Have recently started forging as a hobby and want to specialize in Iron Age, Roman and Frankish/Saxon weaponary, presently spearheads, arrowheads and knives.

This is the latest attempt, a replica of a Late Roman knife found at the Donderberg (Thunder mountain ) in Rhenen, The Netherlands. The antler grip is on request, the chances are higher the original had a wooden grip. The slight ridge between blade and grip is an original feature !

Edited January 10, 200917 yr by Vulpius

Looking good, its cool to see replicas of what the smiths use to make.
Keep up the good work.

Welcome. That is a fine looking piece. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

Nice job Robert, and I also will look fore ward to more of your work.

Welcome aboard Robert, glad to have you.

What are the dimensions of the knife?

Nicely done.

Frosty

Thanks guys!

The blade is 6 # or 15 cm as in the original. The handle is 25 mm (bit less then an inch) across at the blade. I believe they call a point like this a clip point, it was also in the original, of course. I am presently doing some seax blades, those are a bit later (600 - 800 ad) then this piece. Most seax "replica's" one see's are firments of the imagination, so I want to do some historicly correct ones. Found a book with a lot of Frankish grave finds, am working from that.

thats nice I like historical repos