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Basket-hilted Broadsword (Claidheamh mòr) 1600 - 1730
Steel, wood, fish skin | 84.3 cm (blade length) | RCIN 28472
Great Stair, Palace of Holyroodhouse
Basket-hilted Broadsword (Claidheamh mòr) 1600 - 1730
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Claymore basket hilted broadsword. Scottish steel hilt, probably 1715-30, consisting of a conical pommel with pierced flutes on basket, pierced hearts and trefoils. Reptile skin handle, double fuller and ricasso. Blade (probably German, Solingen), of seventeenth-century type.
Provenance
Presented to the Holyrood Amenity Trust by Major H. Pullar, October 1926.
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Medium and techniques
Steel, wood, fish skin
Measurements
84.3 cm (blade length)
99.5 cm (whole object)
