拍品 118
118
A MEDIEVAL GREAT SWORD, in excavated condition, the broad double-edged blade (shortened) with wide central fuller on each face of the forte, slender slightly arched quillons of angular section, heavy wheel-shaped pommel struck with a central cross on each face, and separate pyramidal latten button, late 13th Century

细节
A MEDIEVAL GREAT SWORD, in excavated condition, the broad double-edged blade (shortened) with wide central fuller on each face of the forte, slender slightly arched quillons of angular section, heavy wheel-shaped pommel struck with a central cross on each face, and separate pyramidal latten button, late 13th Century
27 3/8in. blade

拍品专文

A similar sword from the Thames with copper crosses inlaid in the pommel is in the Museum of London. See R.E. Oakeshott, "A War Sword of the XIVth Century in the Guildhall Museum", J.A.A.S, I (1953-5), pp. 141-52