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Great Britain
Basket-hilted Backsword (Claidheamh cùil) 1600 - 1700
Steel | 78.0 cm (blade length) | RCIN 28485
Great Stair, Palace of Holyroodhouse
Great Britain
Basket-hilted Backsword (Claidheamh cùil) 1600 - 1700
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Basket-hilted backsword with Scottish steel hilt and conical shaped pommel with four radial flutes, about 1700. Baskets with shields of pierced hearts. One-edged seventeenth-century blade (probably German) with double fuller.
Provenance
Presented to the Holyrood Amenity Trust by Major H. Pullar. October 1926.
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Medium and techniques
Steel
Measurements
78.0 cm (blade length)
93.5 cm (whole object)
