[Discov] 3500 years old proto-Dacians bronze sword

**diegis** · July 02, 2009, 03:13 PM

http://www.evz.ro/articole/detalii-a...-3500-de-ani-/#

Unfortunately the article is in Romanian, but what i want to remark is the shape and dimensions of the sword, almost exactly as the later iron age era "gladius hispanensis", and i wonder how much share things peoples in those times.

**DAVIDE** · July 02, 2009, 03:16 PM

seems the imperial variant of gladius.

Excellent find

i need to look for the article in english

**jermagon** · July 08, 2009, 03:59 PM

great finding, I wish I could hold it

**Watchman** · July 08, 2009, 04:07 PM

Is it one of those rather ubiquitous "disk-pommel" swords ? Because there's one with a hilt an awful lot like that one's in the National Museum up here, doubtless wandered this far north along the Amber Road...

As for similarity to later Iron Age bades, though, a much closer match would be the Hellenic xiphos which by and large was the same general blade type done in iron...