Subject: warrior
Culture: Villanovan
Setting: Villanova culture, central Italy 10-8thc BC
Object: sword
Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery *
"Bronze sword and scabbard Short swords of this type were popular in the towns of northern Italy at the very end of the Bronze Age.
This one retains fragments of its bone hilt plates, and its scabbard has very refined decoration.
"Italian, Villanovan, 7th century BC. From Cumae near Naples, Italy." ...
