IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 158318 accession number: O.14-1879 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 1 October 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The steel blade is straight and double edged, flaring towards the point which is slightly cusped. The hilt comprises a figure-8 guard, angled across the centre, with cusped wings and long, heavy blade-shaped reinforces extending well down the blade and secured by three rivets. Round the junction of the wings and reinforces is a band of copper alloy. The thin grip swells to the centre, and there is a small, deep dish pommel inside which is a twisted iron wire loop on which are eight loose rings of twisted iron wire. The hilt is covered with black paint, the blade polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion. title: sword NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation Elgood 2004) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Robert Taylor creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158318 CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1600 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Blade Length units: cm value: 85.8 dimension: Overall Length units: cm value: 96.5 dimension: Weight units: g value: 840 CITATIONS -------- List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879 Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865 ---