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Description: | Iron rondel dagger that has a wide rectangular cross section blade that is 27mm wide at the quillon (guard) and gradually narrows to the pointed tip which is now truncated. The quillon is a slightly dished iron disc that because of corrosion is truncated on two sides. Behind the quillon the tang in is a thick iron bar that would normally be in cased in a wooden handle. The pommel is a round and slightly dished plate.This artefact is a rondel dagger, whose name is derived from the round pommel and often the hand-guard. This is a weapon rather than a domestic knife, and is depicted as a sidearm for solders and knights alike from a number of 15th century illustrations. Furthermore an example of 15th century dagger combat is illustrated in Hans Talhoffer's instruction manual (Rector, 2004) in which rondel daggers are the weapons of choise. There are a number of illustrations of the period where merchants etc. are depicted with rondel daggers worn at the belt; these are most likely worn for defence, though this was a fashionable male accessory as well as a weapon of war. Typically the blades are triangular with a strong wide back and only one cutting edge, but examples with two blades (like this example) are common together with simple spikes that have either a diamond or square section. These weapons have blades that taper to a fine point and are designed to pierce mail or cloth armour or to pass through any gaps in plate armour. This type of dagger was in use from the 14th to mid 16th century, this example probably dates to the 15th century.Mark Rector (edds) 2004 Hans Talhoffer, Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-century Manual of Swordfighting and Close-quarter Combat Greenhill Military Paperback.
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