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Description: | A copper alloy Medieval (1200-1500) cross guard (quillon) from a dagger. Overall it measures 57.61mm long, 33.76mm wide and 9.77mm thick. It weighs 28.45g.It is broadly rectangular in section throughout. At the centre is a sub rectangular section measuring 19.54mm long, 14.61mm wide and 8.87mm thick, which contains a rectangular hole, 14.68mm long and 5.52mm wide at one end, narrowing to 4.59mm at the other. This would have accommodated the tang of the dagger, and the section projects outwards c.2.5mm on one of the faces of the object.From one long edge is a pelta- or 'axe' shaped projection, 19.65mm long and widening from 6.52(x6.65)mm to 17.82(x3.23)mm. The opposite edge is decorated with two transverse grooves roughly at the centre.To either short end of the central area an arm extrends, narrowing from c.7x7mm to c.6x6mm then widening again to c.9x9 and 9.5x9.5mm respectively. The end face of each arm is emphasised by a circumferential groove c.5mm behind it and is flat with a saltire engraved at the centre.Similar dagger guards have been recorded on The Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, see finds: IOW-3D7522; BERK-1F11D4; BH-DAC185; HESH-1C7790; IOW-585324; SOM-2780A4; SUSS-9322F7 and WMID-95DEB5.Published examples of quillon-daggers are illustrated in Ward Perkins J. B. 1940. "London Museum Medieval Catalogue". 39-42, plates VI-VII. Ward Perkins states that these artefacts are military daggers with the earliest examples surviving from the 13th century. There are "frequent representations in the Maciejowski Bible, c. 1250, passim, depicting a short, sword-shaped weapon, with quillons drooping slightly toward the point, and a lobed or circular pommel". This type of military dagger was common until the close of the fourteenth century when they were ousted in popularity by the rondel dagger. However, Ward Perkins notes that "they by no means went out of use at this time and representations of them occur at all periods".Brian Read suggests of similar dagger quillons in 'Metal Artefacts of Antiquity' (2001), nos 628 and 629, that these are of later Medieval, 15th century date.
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