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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1530; Classification(s): weapons, sword, casting (process), sword, cast; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.193-1933]
Description: Sword. Fig-shaped pommel. No button. Long shaped grip of wood covered with thin leather. Long, arched quillons of circular section, narrowing toward the tips and ending in wider knobs en suite with the pommel. Large, D-shaped outer ring-guard; two short branches form the ends of each of which springs a counter-guard curving outward and then back to join the ring-guard. Back-guard of one bar. Back-edged blade of very flat triangular section.
The blade has no marks, and is in poor (though not excavated) condition. The hilt is effective but crudely made, much corroded. The (original) grip consists of a wooden core, bound with fine cord over which is a covering of thin leather. This leather covering once extended downwards over the ecusson to form a rain-guard over the top of the scabbard. Some traces of this rain-guard survive. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Unknown weapons sword | Temporal: | name=16th century; start=1530; end=1530 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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