Basket-Hilt

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Basket Hilt on a Mortuary Sword

A closed basket variant that was used with several types of swords is called the Basket Hilt . Among other things with the types: Scottish basket sword, Schiavona and with most versions of the Mortuary Swords . Depending on the size and design, a distinction is made between the following variants:

  • "One-third Bakekt Hilt"
  • "Half Basket Hilt"
  • "Two-third Bakekt Hilt"
  • "Three-quarter Bakekt Hilt"

literature

  • Cyril Mazansky: British Basket-hilted Swords: A Typology of Basket-type Sword Hilts , Boydell Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-84383-053-5 .
  • Gerhard Seifert: Technical terms of edged weapons. German ABC of the European naked defensive weapons. (Cut, thrust, hit and hand thrown weapons). Verlag Seifert, Haig 1981.
  • John Wallace: Scottish swords and dirks: an illustrated reference guide to Scottish edged weapons , Stackpole Books, 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cyril Mazansky: British Basket-hilted Swords , Chapter 1, Pages 5 ff. ( Partial preview online )