Epée

Saint-Dizier (52) - Musée Municipal

© Musée de Saint-Dizier, C. Philippot

between 530 and 570
iron, silver, gold, wood (scabbard), cloth (on the bolt), leather (on the wood of the scabbard), fur (on the wood of the scabbard)
The wooden scabbard is present. It is covered with leather, of which only a few fragments are preserved near the gutters and the bouterolle. Traces of fur are visible under the layer of wood. The pommel is solid, silver, decorated with niello engravings and gilded. A decorative rivet in gilded silver is present. There is a double ring in gilded silver, solid and incised.

Where to find it

Saint-Dizier (52) - Musée Municipal
17 rue de la Victoire

52100 Saint-Dizier

Commune of discovery

Saint-Dizier

Locality

La Tuilerie

Type of intervention

Excavation

Year of excavation

2002

Chief Scientist

TRUC, Marie-Cécile

Inventory number

D 2006.7.7

Scope

Funeral ➔ Furniture associated with the deceased
Defence ➔ Military equipment

Materials

Metal ➔ Ferrous alloy ➔ Metal ➔ Silver ➔ Organic ➔ Leather ➔ Organic ➔ Wood

Chronological period

Middle Ages [476 / 1492] ➔ Early Middle Ages [476 / 1000]

Dimensions

L. 91 cm, l. 1 cm, P. 1 cm,