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[Patch]

Im going serious mode on both your buts.

This is a military sword hilt. It had a sharpended double-edged blade designed for only one purpose. Killing humans. It was not designed for going up someones arse for pleasure. It has the sole purpose of causing you death.
A short sharp stabbing motion would probably been enough to dispatch, straight into the chest cavety or maybe into the lower intestine. It probably could be used for hacking but bigger instruments such as the clamor or battle axe were designed for that.

[Wooster]

iirc The Roman soldiers aimed for just below the sternum with their Gladius, apparently the shock of it going in was enough to kill. (Something to do with a knot of nerves in that area)
The one you found looks like a butt plug now that the blade has rusted away  , but when it was new it could probably also stove someone's head in through their hat if there wasn't an opporchancity to use the point.  

It's brutal either way, an example is in Ensign Ewart of the Scots Greys account of how he captured a French Eagle at Waterloo: "One made a thrust at my groin, I parried him off and cut him down through the head. A lancer came at me - I threw the lance off by my right side and cut him through the chin and upwards through the teeth. Next, a foot soldier fired at me and then charged me with his bayonet, which I also had the good luck to parry, and then I cut him down through the head".

Different blade but that's some nasty shit right there, it probably wasn't even a mortal wound to teeth bloke....unless you count the chances of a resulting infection and lingering painful death.

(Speaking of lingering death through infection, another French bloke didn't fare too well against another Scot. King Henry II of France had a splinter of a lance pierce his eyes during a tournament against a Scots Knight and it took him 11 days to die (septicaemia), apparently in agony. )

[Patch]

I just read your words and shivers went up my spine.
I can only imagine what it would be like to fight a battle in the days of sword and steel.
What would go through a mans mind? I must hack and dismember this Bearded Clam before he does me?

EDIT: Bearded Clam, bwaaahahah nice and classy.

The first time I tried to use the C . . . not disappointed.

[Wooster]

I can only imagine what it would be like to fight a battle in the days of sword and steel.

i.e. the East End of Glasgow on a Friday night? 



(Bearded Clam was introduced in the days before I pissed all the women off in here...i.e. the days when there still was women in here.  )

[tinchick]

*ahem*

[Wooster]

I think you're pretty much the exception that proves the rule Tinchick.

[digidix]

Im going serious mode on both your buts.

This is a military sword hilt. It had a sharpended double-edged blade designed for only one purpose. Killing humans. It was not designed for going up someones arse for pleasure. It has the sole purpose of causing you death.
A short sharp stabbing motion would probably been enough to dispatch, straight into the chest cavety or maybe into the lower intestine. It probably could be used for hacking but bigger instruments such as the clamor or battle axe were designed for that.

No doubt it was used for killing, I was just jesting when I said it was for use with vegetables cutting/peeling....I really haven't seen how a sword of any type is constructed just how it is smelted, shaped and sharpened by a blacksmith (on tv shows)