Now preserved in the Norwich Museum is another falchion of about the same period (Fig. 158A) that was found in dredging the river Thorpe about the year 1833. Its entire length is 39 inches, with a wheel pommel and quillons of brass very crudely engraved; on one side of the blade is inlaid in copper an armourer's mark, a crown. It is fully described in Archaeologia, vol. xxvii, pp. 435-437.
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Fig. 159. From an English (?) illumination about 1280
Showing the falchion, used in combination with the bosse or small circular shield. The dagger of the farther knight is worthy of scrutiny. Collection: Author's
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Fig. 160. Falchion, early XIVth century, with the arms of the Grand Châtelet upon the pommel
Found in 1861 on the site of the Châtelet, Paris, by the Pont au Change Musée Cluny, Paris
