1st-3rd century AD. A double-edged gladi sword of Pompeii typology; the blade with wide and parallel cutting edges tapering towards the triangular point, battle nicks on the sides; shallow blood channel, very long tang and a later added inscription 'Leg.XIII'. See Curle, J., A Roman Frontier Post and its People, the Fort of Newstead in the Parish of Melrose, Glasgow, 1911; Bishop, M. C. & Coulston, J.C.N., Roman military equipment, from the Punic wars to the fall of Rome, London, 1993; Antonucci, C., ‘The Praetorians, the bodyguard of the Emperor Trajan, 2nd cent. AD’, in Ancient Warrior,1. Stockport, 1994, pp.3ff.; Feugère, M., Weapons of the Romans, Port Stroud, 2002; Bishop, M. C. & Coulston, J.C.N., Roman military equipment, from the Punic wars to the fall of Rome, London, 2006; Miks, C., Studien zur Romischen Schwertbewaffnung in der Kaiserzeit, I-II Banden, Rahden, 2007; for very similar specimens see Miks, 2007, no.A792 (Windisch, length 64cm); A821 (Zwammerdam, length 71cm); A302 (Hofstade Steenberg, length 64cm); A369 (Korytnica, length 76,2cm); A354 (Klein-Winternheim, length 67cm"). 625 grams, 69cm long (27 1/4"). From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister; from her collection formed early 1960s-1990s. This type is the main one represented on the Column of Trajan and also on Adamklisi monument. Although its employment decreased after the first half of the 2nd century AD, variants of this sword were still ed during the 3rd century. This kind of sword was much more suitable than the older Mainz typology for the fight against the Germanic tribes, allowing the legionary to deliver equally successful blows by stabbing and chopping.