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Basket-hilted Broadsword (Claidheamh mòr) 1770 - 1830
Steel, copper, fish skin | 83.0 cm (blade length) | RCIN 28483
Great Stair, Palace of Holyroodhouse
Great Britain
Basket-hilted Broadsword (Claidheamh mòr) 1770 - 1830
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Basket-hilted broadsword with British copper hilt and domed shaped pommel and tang button with four radial flutes. Handle bound with fishskin and wire. Central shield engraved with a thistle. German blade in seventeenth-century style, but of eighteenth-century manufacture. Short ricasso with one fuller.
Provenance
Presented to the Holyrood Amenity Trust by Major H. Pullar. October 1926.
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Steel, copper, fish skin
Measurements
83.0 cm (blade length)
98.0 cm (whole object)
