blade and hilt put together in reent times but ancient and authentic. blade has flat midrib which becomes ridge shape ca 1/2 way down. Hilt has long sides fitting around blade. flat top, round handle and pommel like umbrella flattened on the sides where the blade edges are. whole decorated with linear engraved patterns of crosshatching, hatching, in triangles, grooves. pommel has hatched ridges. center of pommel has iron stud, the remains of the tang of the original iron blade.