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The basket-hilted sword is a development of the 16th century, rising to popularity in the 17th century and remaining in widespread use throughout the 18th century, used especially by heavy cavalry up to the Napoleonic era. [6] One of the earliest basket-hilted swords was recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose, an
Different positions from the Hanging Guard, from Captain G. Sinclair's "Anti Pugilism" Scottish fencing manuals detailing the use of the basket-hilted Scottish broadsword (besides other disciplines including the smallsword and spadroon and, to a lesser extent, the targe, dirk and quarterstaff) were published throughout the 18th century, with early and late examples dating to the late 17th and ...
The term claymore is an anglicisation of the Gaelic claidheamh-mòr "big/great sword", attested in 1772 (as Cly-more) with the gloss "great two-handed sword". [3] The sense "basket-hilted sword" is contemporaneous, attested in 1773 as "the broad-sword now used ... called the Claymore, (i.e., the great sword)", [4] although OED observes that this usage is "inexact, but very common".
A broadsword, or basket-hilted sword, is an early modern European sword. Broadsword may also refer to: A type of medieval arming sword with a broad blade, designed more for cutting than thrusting; Chinese broadsword, a single-edged Chinese sword; Scottish broadsword, a Scottish basket-hilted sword
English: Portrait of Donald McBane, Scottish Fencing Master, from Donald McBane's "The Expert Swordsman's Companion". The portrait reads "Donaldi Bani Scoti Effigies". This image portrays McBane in the "Outside Guard" with a Broadsword, while the table next to him has both Broadswords and Smalls
The crossed weapons in the traditional sword dance is not limited to basket-hilted broadswords. Dancing around crossed Lochaber axes is mentioned as an older version of the dance. [16] The Broadsword indicated the basket-hilted sword worn by officers of Highland Regiments and sometimes miscalled the claymore, which is a large two-handed weapon.
The term two-handed sword may refer to any large sword designed to be used primarily with two hands: the European longsword, popular in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. the Scottish late medieval claymore (not to be confused with the basket-hilted claymore of the 18th century) the Bidenhänder sword favored by the Landsknechte of 16th ...
In 1895, a new pierced steel hilt pattern was introduced, replacing the earlier Gothic hilt with a three-quarter basket hilt. The new pattern was short-lived due to the edge of the guard fraying uniforms, and in 1897 the final pattern was settled on, being simply the 1895 pattern with the inner edge of the guard turned down, and the piercings ...