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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy late Medieval (1400-1500) cross guard (quillon) from a dagger, missing its bifurcate lateral guard. Overall it measures 71.35mm long, 15.70mm wide and 11.60mm thick. It weighs 50.64g. cf. WILT-3453E5 and Read 'Metal Artefacts of Antiquity' (2001), nos 628 and 629.It is broadly rectangular in section throughout, though with bevelled edges at its ends. At the centre, between the quillons is a sub rectangular section measuring c.26.30mm long, 16.30mm wide and 8.95mm tick, which contains a rectangular hole, 15.20mm long and 5.50mm wide, which would have accommodated the tang of the dagger. On one side at either end of this section are the stumps of a bifurcate lateral guard (see parallels listed above for complete examples). At these points each arm narrows in width and thickness to 9.20mm by 7.80mm on one and 9.05mm by 7.95mm on the other. There is a circumferential groove at this narrowest point on each of the arms. These then expand in width and thickness so that at their ends they measure 12.05mm by 10.60mm and 12.20mm by 11.60mm respectively.The end face of each arm is flat and one has a saltire within a rectangular border engraved on it. On each side between the end and the circumferential groove there is a diagonal groove. There are also three transverse grooves between the stumps of the bifurcate lateral guard and two visible grooves on the opposite face.
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