IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18841 accession number: M.2-1934 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 19 April 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hand-and-a-half sword or bastard sword. (Type XVII). Large well-formed pommel in the shape of a truncated wedge, rounded at the top where it is cut into ridges, two on each side of the tang-rivet, set at right-angles to the plane of the blade. The tang-rivet button is in the form of a small stepped pyramid. The main faces are faintly ridged, vertically, and the edges are strongly chamfered. Stout tang of flat rectangular section, stamped on one side with a well-marked Gothic capital letter B. Cross of quadrangular section slightly arched from the thickened midpoint, deeply slotted on the underside to take the shoulders of the blade, the slot being considerably wider than the blade itself. Blade, long and acutely tapering, of flattened hexagonal section, lightly fullered in the upper third. There is a mark (a sword or dagger) inlaid in latten upon either face of the blade, 5.7 cm (2 1/4") below the hilt. Found on the bed of the Great Ouse at Ely, Cambridgeshire, 1845. On the back of the blade is a legend in white paint stating, incorrectly, that it was taken from the River Cam at Ely. This is a mistake, which has been perpetuated ever since in every literary reference to it. title: hand-and-a-half sword NOTES ----- type: history note value: W.B. Redfern Coll., see Sotheby's sale catalogue, 20th June, 1934, lot 107, ill. pl. iii, but bought privately beforehand. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, with a contribution from the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18841 SUBJECTS ------------------- sword sword TECHNIQUES ---------- sword, cast and inlaid with brass in the fuller casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1380 - 1400 creation date earliest: 1380 creation date latest: 1400 culture: 14th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 105.5 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.15 CITATIONS -------- A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries On Some Choice Sword-Hilts Zeitschrift für Historische Waffen-und-Kostumkunde National Art-Collections Fund Thirty-first Annual Report 1934 The Archaeology of Weapons The Sword in the Age of Chivalry Arms and Armour in the Fitzwilliam Records of the Medieval Sword The ''Sempach'' Family of Swords --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_2_1934.jpg height: 342 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_2_1934.jpg height: 225 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_2_1934.jpg height: 342 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_2_1934.jpg height: 113 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/509/704/large_M_2_1934_200809_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 553 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/509/704/mid_M_2_1934_200809_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 270 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.2-1934_200809_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/509/704/preview_M_2_1934_200809_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 135 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/509/704/M_2_1934_200809_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 2308 pixels width: 4272 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/289/large_M_2_1934_200809_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 490 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/289/mid_M_2_1934_200809_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 239 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.2-1934_200809_mfj22_dc1.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/289/preview_M_2_1934_200809_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 120 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/627/289/M_2_1934_200809_mfj22_dc1.ptif height: 2036 pixels width: 4258 pixels