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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1500 - 1600; Classification(s): weapons, sword; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.14-1879]
Description: The steel blade is straight and double edged, flaring towards the point which is slightly cusped. The hilt comprises a figure-8 guard, angled across the centre, with cusped wings and long, heavy blade-shaped reinforces extending well down the blade and secured by three rivets. Round the junction of the wings and reinforces is a band of copper alloy. The thin grip swells to the centre, and there is a small, deep dish pommel inside which is a twisted iron wire loop on which are eight loose rings of twisted iron wire. The hilt is covered with black paint, the blade polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion. | 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=1500; end=1600 | 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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