拍品 77
77
A MEDIEVAL CRUCIFORM SWORD, in excavated condition, with sharply tapering double-edged blade of flattened diamond section (point missing) struck with a mark on each face, and on face of the tang, long straight quillons of flattened-hexagonal section tapering to down-turned tips, and with a flattened central point, and thick wheel pommel with wide hollow chamfer on each side, late 14th Century

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A MEDIEVAL CRUCIFORM SWORD, in excavated condition, with sharply tapering double-edged blade of flattened diamond section (point missing) struck with a mark on each face, and on face of the tang, long straight quillons of flattened-hexagonal section tapering to down-turned tips, and with a flattened central point, and thick wheel pommel with wide hollow chamfer on each side, late 14th Century
26in. blade

拍品專文

The hilt form is similar to that of the civic swords of the cities of Bristol and Lincoln, which probably date respectively from 1373 and 1386. See Laking, II, figs.692 and 693. See also the swords illustrated ibid., I, p.140