2'">4 DAGGEES AM) THEIR HILTS. — RAPIER-SHAPED BLADES. [cHAP. X. now open at the end, though probably, as Wilde suggests, originally closed by a bone stud. The hilt of a sword in the museum at Tours is joined to the blade in much the same fashion, but has a mere indentation instead of the central… … broken. Fig. 320. — Tii perai y. A blade more like Fig. .321 (15]- inteh.es long and 1 inch broad) was found in the Mardyke, near Grays Thur- rock,§ Essex. Some of the weapons of this kind, like one from the Thames at Kingston (11.V inches), appear to have been made from broken sword or rapier-like…
Bronze age -- Great Britain · Bronze age -- Ireland · Great Britain -- Antiquities
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