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DAGGER
Unique ID: CORN-CCDA02
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast copper alloy dagger guard with two quillons on either side of a central block, dating from the 16th to the 17th century. Both quillons survive and are hexagonal in section with expanding terminals which end in flat faces which are both decorated with incised plain crosses. The central block is rectangular in profile and oval in plan with a rectangular aperture, 12 mm long by 5 mm wide, for the now missing iron tang to pass through. The junctions of the central block with the quillons are flush with the lower face but recessed from the upper face. The flat face is undecorated but on the upper face there are pairs of transverse grooves in the quillon arms, on either side of the block, and there are also three incised, parallel lines on one side of the aperture. On both inner edges of the aperture, on this face, are pairs of small pits which may have helped to secure the tang to the guard. Dagger guards of this form have been recorded on the database, where they are generally dated from the 16th to the 17th century, as in an example from Surrey, SUR 670303, and another from Norfolk, NMS-CB5DD4, where the recorder references: R. Holmes (ed) Weapon: a visual history of arms amd armour (London, 2006), pp.130-1, DW-C 125, small shell guard and ring-guards.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 10 mm
Height: 10 mm
Width: 52 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight: 25.75 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st September 2014 - Saturday 31st January 2015
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Maker-with-Rame (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SX4351
Four figure Latitude: 50.33794695
Four figure longitude: -4.20757646
1:25K map: SX4351
1:10K map: SX41SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holmes, R. | 2006 | Weapon: A visual History of Arms and Armour | London, New York, Me | DK | pp.130-1 | no.DW-C 125 |
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