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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.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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