anglo saxon sword feltwell 4th 5th century Sieraden both of people and the

both of people and the land

making them well suited for smaller adults and women too

Leather vests of this type were worn from the early 16th to the mid-17th century by those who worked outdoors

but around the fifth century it reached the shape as we know it today

so it can show slight variations over the pictures shown

anglo saxon sword feltwell 4th 5th century Sieraden both of people and theThis beautiful spatha is a replica of an early Saxon sword found in 1961. The original, dated to the 4th 5th century, was found in the hypocaust (underfloor warm air heating system) of a Roman villa in Feltwell near Norfolk, England. Archaeologist believe the Feltwell Sword came to England with the first Anglian settlers. This beautiful reconstruction of the Saxon one handed sword has an approx. 61 cm long blade with a wide fuller and unsharpened