Sword from Cedynia, 12thC.
Sword from the grave Nr. 558, Cedynia / Poland.
This work is based on my reconstruction of the original sword found in the grave (558) near Cedynia town in Poland.
The main source for my reconstruction was a Polish book of Paweł Kucypera, Piotr Pudło and Tomasz Kurasiński: 'Miecze z cmentarzyska w Cedyni, pow. gryfiński (stan. 2) w świetle najnowszych badań interdyscyplinarnych'.
Also very helpfull in recreation process, was the book of Alfred Geibig: 'Beiträge zur morphologischen Entwicklung des Schwertes im Mittelalter: Eine Analyse des Fundmaterials vom ausgehenden 8. bis zum 12. Jahrhundert aus Sammlungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland' - 1991.
Actually my work was based on a few very similar examples, because of very poor state of preservation of original sword.
Measurements:
overall length 970mm
blade length 812mm
grip length 105mm
blade width 53mm
thickness: at the base 4mm
crossguard 235mm
pommel 57x40x35mm
balance ca. 120mm
weight ca. 1220g
Original sword remains with computer reconstruction: