ANOTHER, in excavated condition, the broad flat slightly tapering double-edged blade with wide central fuller containing traces of inscriptions on each face, the iron hilt comprising short straight quillons of square section, and Brazil-nut pommel, 10th/11th Century, probably Rhenish | Christie's

拍品 79

ANOTHER, in excavated condition, the broad flat slightly tapering double-edged blade with wide central fuller containing traces of inscriptions on each face, the iron hilt comprising short straight quillons of square section, and Brazil-nut pommel, 10th/11th Century, probably Rhenish

細節

ANOTHER, in excavated condition, the broad flat slightly tapering double-edged blade with wide central fuller containing traces of inscriptions on each face, the iron hilt comprising short straight quillons of square section, and Brazil-nut pommel, 10th/11th Century, probably Rhenish
35½in. blade

拍品專文

For a discussion of Brazil-nut pommel swords see Oakeshott, The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, 1964, pp.80-88