A SCOTTISH BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD with sharply tapering blade of flattened diamond section, iron guard of slender vertical and saltire-shaped bars, the latter with central panels, and struck below with a mark, a B, pommel of flattened truncated conical shape, grooved for the top of the guard and decorated with flutes, and leather-covered spirally grooved wooden grip (grip damaged, pitted throughout), 17th/18th Century