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Description: | This is a nice example of a medieval or perhaps post-medieval copper alloy dagger guard. These are sometimes referred to as a ??quillon?? however; as a quillon is set at a right angle to the blade faces and this item would have sat on the same axis as the blade faces, it is a guard. It is diamond-shaped on plan and of uniform thickness. There is a central, sub-rectangular hole for the blade tang. On what is presumed to be the side that was nearest the blade there is a cast socket to stabilise the guard against the blade.
The surface is now pitted with the remains of a dark green patination to the outer sides with iron staining in the blade socket. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Trevaskus, Rod | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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