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What a way to start a new hobby!
In July, ten-year-old Fionntan Hughes got a metal detector for his birthday. The first time he took it out for a spin, Hughes found a centuries-old sword buried about a foot underground, Eimear Flanagan reports for BBC News.
The sword’s ornate handle is its most identifiable feature, but antiques experts Mark and David Hawkins tell BBC News that the sword is difficult to identify from photographs because the rust may be exaggerating its size. But it looks like an English basket-hilted broadsword that was introduced between 1610 to 1640.
It seems to have a plum pudding pommel, which is “typical of the early types,” the Hawkins tell BBC News, but because some designs were used by English officers for more than a century, they suspect this sword is from the late 1600s or early 1700s.
What a way to start a new hobby!
In July, ten-year-old Fionntan Hughes got a metal detector for his birthday. The first time he took it out for a spin, Hughes found a centuries-old sword buried about a foot underground, Eimear Flanagan reports for BBC News.
The sword’s ornate handle is its most identifiable feature, but antiques experts Mark and David Hawkins tell BBC News that the sword is difficult to identify from photographs because the rust may be exaggerating its size. But it looks like an English basket-hilted broadsword that was introduced between 1610 to 1640.
It seems to have a plum pudding pommel, which is “typical of the early types,” the Hawkins tell BBC News, but because some designs were used by English officers for more than a century, they suspect this sword is from the late 1600s or early 1700s.
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