A SWEPT-HILT RIDING SWORD with broad slightly tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section (tip reduced) with recessed ricasso and central fuller on each face of the forte, one inlaid in copper with running wolf mark (copper missing), iron hilt comprising guard of heavy flattened bars with arms linked by two rings on the outside, the larger one linked to the knuckle-guard by a curved diagonal, straight quillons vertically recurved at the ends and with disc terminals, two diagonal bars on the inside linked to an elongated triangular plate covering a thumb-bar, barrel-shaped pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip, late 16th/early 17th Century