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Description: | Sword with a heavy, broad blade, single edged except near the tip where it is two-edged. A narrow groove runs along each side near the back. The iron hilt has short, domed quilions, pointed langues and a disc pommel with a domed and knobbed centre piece. The finger guard is made of a forked strip of iron attached to one of the quillions. The ends of the rivet holding the hilt to the blade are plated brass and shaped like a flower. | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.160946 | Go to resource |
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