Dating west swords
Peter Messent
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Wed 06 Sep, 2017 10:05 pm Post subject: Kilmory Knap & Keills stones, sword depictions and datin | |
| Evening! I've been wondering a lot about Scottish swords lately, and I just so happened to stumble across a bunch of pictures from Kilmory Knap Chapel and Keills Chapel (western Scotland) with some rather stunning depictions of swords carved in stone. I've read these stones dated variously from the 12th to the 14th century (12th seems awfully early?), leaving me with little certainty about where they actually fall. Of the ones I could get a good look at from pictures, it seems that they had the down-swept quillons (of course that have become stereotypical of Scottish swords) and either wheel pommels with large peen blocks or some evolution of the Viking-age type lobate pommel. The MacMillan Cross, which I unde SwordUse your arrow keys to navigate the tabs below, and your tab key to choose an item Title:Sword Date:ca. 1400 Culture:Western European Medium:Steel, silver, copper alloy, leather Dimensions:L. 40 1/4 in. (102.2 cm); L. of blade 32 in. (81.3 cm); Wt. 3 lb. 11 oz. (1673 g) Classification:Swords Credit Line:The Collection of Giovanni P. Morosini, presented by his daughter Giulia, 1932 Object Number:32.75.225 Inscription: Inscribed on the pommel in latin, in gothic lettering: sunt hic etiam sua praemia lavdi (Here, too, virtue has its due reward), from Virgil, Aeneid, book 1, line 461; on the blade in latin, in large slightly raised gothic lettering, now illegible: DOMIN...TEMPOR[A?]SANCTA MA[RIA?]. Giovanni Pertinax Morosini, New York (until d. 1908; by descent to his daughter); Giulia Pertinax Morosini, New York (1908–d. 1932; her bequest to MMA). .
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