with broad tapering double-edged blade of flattened-hexagonal section, stamped with three pairs of ‘X’ marks within a pair of very long slender fullers on each face, rectangular ricasso, struck with a Pi mark on each face, iron hilt comprising a pair of horizontally recurved quillons swelling towards the terminals, a pair of écusson framed by a pair of lines on each side, upper and lower ring-guard each with a central moulding en suite with the quillons, trifurcated inner-guard, thumb-ring, spherical pommel, later grip and blackened colour throughout, 106.8 cm blade

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1410

A backsword with a hilt of similar form, also struck with a Pi mark at the forte, is preserved in the Armeria Reale, Turin. See Bertolotto et al 1982, p. 355, no. 128. A further hilt of this type is preserved in the Royal Armouries, Leeds. See Dufty 1974, p. 18, plate 21d.