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Description: | A Post-Medieval (1500-1800) copper alloy dagger quillon guard, complete but in two pieces. It has one curving arm, which is now broken. It measures 53.01x38.43x3.73mm, without the arm, and weighs 32.02g (with the arm).The guard is oval in shape with moulded foliate decoration to the upper face, somewhat abstract in form with leaves and straight and curving lines around a central ?bonnet. A semi-circular projection to one side, decorated with two tendrils, is formed around a rectangular slot measuring 8.25x3.58mm, which would have housed the tang. Iron staining suggests it would have been made of iron. In line with this slot the arm extends to one side (77.53mm), and a shorter arm to the other. These too have moulded decoration, which is limited but possibly zoomorphic in terms of the latter. Decoration of the former is of curling tendrils and on both faces, and is in itself a curling tendril. The underside of the oval is undecorated but bumpy, presumably as a result of the casting process.
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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