with tapering blade double-edged for the upper half, formed with a slender central fuller and struck with a series of eyelash marks along the back-edge on each face, iron basket-hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of straight quillons with vertically recurved tips with pronounced globular terminals each chiselled with a finely chequered design, symmetrical basket-guard formed on each face with a saltire with a scrolling arm joining front and rear guards, figure-of-eight shaped basal plate pierced with four apertures, and joined front and back by an s-shaped bar to the guard, thumb-loop, mushroom-shaped pommel cut with a band of chequering en suite with the quillons, and the grip with a later binding of plaited wire and ribband between ‘Turk’s Heads’, 91.2 cm blade

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S117

Hilts of this form are associated with North Germany and Scandinavia. See Norman 1980, p. 149.