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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy quillon dagger guard of Medieval to Post-Medieval date. The guard is lozenge shaped in plan at the centre with short arms that are square in section and flare to flattened square shaped terminals. It is rectangular in section and curves slightly downwards towards the terminal ends. The central section of the guard has a rectangular perforation, through which the tang of the dagger blade would have passed, that measures 10.40mm in length and 6.10mm in width. It is undecorated, although on the base of he guard to either side of the central perforation are extensive tool marks and V-shaped incisions, presumably to allow the guard to to sit neatly on the top edge of the blade. The guard measures 70.72mm in length, 14.65mm in width at widest point (the central lozenge shaped area), 7.13mm in thickness, and weighs 24.04g.
This quillon or dagger guard is of Medieval to Post-Medieval date, with parallels on the PAS database (see for example ESS-CF3053, DENO-B36372 or SF-7ECEA4) and from Medieval London (London Museum Medievgal Catalogue, 1967: pp. 40, figs. 6-7) suggesting a date range between the 14th and 17th centuries AD. | Subjects: | Quillon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Brown, Andrew | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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