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A SCOTTISH BASKET HILTED BACKSWORD
With iron ribbon hilt and beak-nosed quillon and with conical pommel with plain tapering blade, in excavated condition circa 1680, the wood hilt with traces of soot suggesting this sword was concelaed in a chimney following the Disarmament Act of 1746
length of blade 34in. (86cm)
With iron ribbon hilt and beak-nosed quillon and with conical pommel with plain tapering blade, in excavated condition circa 1680, the wood hilt with traces of soot suggesting this sword was concelaed in a chimney following the Disarmament Act of 1746
length of blade 34in. (86cm)