Rights Holder: National Museums Liverpool
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Unique ID: LVPL-37ABE2
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
A cast copper alloy dagger guard dating from the late Medieval to the early Post-Medieval period, 15th or 16th century. The object has a crescent-shaped projection decorated with a transverse groove, beyond which are small crescentic punchmarks. The rectangular-sectioned projection tapers below the transverse groove towards the sub-triangular tang-hole. The guard has two sub-rectangular curved quillons, one of which is incomplete. The complete terminal is decorated on one face with two transverse grooves between which is a diagonal groove. The object has a dark brown patina and appears to be in good condition.
Quillon guards would have been mounted on a dagger in between the blade and the handle, helping to protect the hand from a blow and also preventing it slipping down the blade.
Notes:
The object has not been seen by the FLO who recorded it from the attached image.
Class: Quillon
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Quantity: 1
Length: 64.5 mm
Width: 42.99 mm
Thickness: 11.7 mm
Weight: 36.9 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st February 2012
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Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Read, B. | 1995 | History Beneath our Feet (1995) | Ipswich | Anglia Publishing |