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Old 23rd August 2010, 05:23 PM   #22
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A few days ago i have had a local opinion on this piece, which sounded fairly reasonable, as within not far from some of the impressions posted here, namely those from Lee: an utility knife of the afalcatado style, from the Ibero-Roman period.
Ibero-Roman appears to be a term preferred over here, in detriment of the Hispano-Roman attribution used abroad.
I guess that the afalcatado (falcata like) type should be interpreted in a broad sense.
Being its typology an issue that may still constitute a riddle, specialy being of peasant's manufacture, i will take its age range reiterated suggestion worthy of consideration ( I-V century AD).
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