IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18827 accession number: HEN.M.188-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 19 April 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hand-and-a-half sword or bastard sword. ('Great sword', or 'War Sword', or 'Great Espee d'Allegmagne'). Type XIIIA. Very deep wheel-shaped pommel with very small central boss, with a cross (once inlaid with latten or copper) or incised on one face. Long tang, with restored 19th century grip. Straight cross of rectangular section widening toward the tips from broadened midpoint. Long, heavy blade, tapering very slightly with a wide shallow fuller running two-thirds of its length. title: hand-and-a-half sword NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sold at the Helbing Gallery at Munich 1908 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18827 SUBJECTS ------------------- cross cross TECHNIQUES ---------- sword, cast, with either inlaid copper or latten decoration, or incised cross decoration casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1250 - 1350 creation date earliest: 1250 creation date latest: 1350 culture: 13th Century-14th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 115 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.4 CITATIONS -------- A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries The Sword in the Age of Chivalry Europaische Hieb und Stichwaffen: aus der Sammlung des Museums für Deutsche Geschichte --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/HEN_M_188_1933_281_29.jpg height: 185 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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