IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18814
accession number:	HEN.M.185-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 19 April 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Very large, heavy and well-formed pommel of brazil nut shape. Long flat tang of rectangular section. Straight cross of indeterminate (possibly corroded hexagonal) section, not widening to the tips but thickened in the middle over the blade. Long, very slightly tapering, rather narrow blade with a well-marked narrow fuller running two-thirds of the length. There is no real point, but the lower few inches of the blade are heavily corroded and a narrow point may have worn or broken away.
There are traces of a mark inlaid in ?copper in the fullers of the blade.
title:	hand-and-a-half sword

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J.S. Henderson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18814





TECHNIQUES
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sword, cast with inlaid copper? decoration
casting (process)

CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1225 - 1300
creation date earliest:	1225
creation date latest:	1300
culture:	13th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 119

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 1.47