A MEDIEVAL 'GREAT' SWORD, SECOND HALF OF THE 14TH/EARLY 15TH CENTURY in excavated condition, with broad blade cut with a shallow three-quarter length fuller on each face, cut with a running wolf mark on one side and inlaid with a running wolf mark in latten on the other, iron hilt comprising straight cross-piece of rectangular section swelling slightly towards the terminals, and strongly formed wheel pommel (the blade and cross-piece each with filled repairs, repatinated throughout) 98cm; 38 5/8in blade A sword of similar form with a Nashki Arabic inscription recording its bequest to the city of Alexandria in the year 1400-01 is illustrated in E. Oakeshott 1991, p. 103, No. 8.