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Fig. 823. Bronze yataghan hilt

Of about A.D. 400 to 600 From Ardabil, Persia, on the south-west coast of the Caspian Sea British Museum

Fig. 825. Dagger

Iron hilt. Probably Spanish, about 1500 Collection: Baron de Cosson

Fig. 824. Dagger. Silvered bronze hilt. English(?), about 1480. Found in the Thames, Westminster. Collection: Author

Fig. 826. Dagger. Iron hilt. Italian (Venetian), about 1500. Wallace Collection (Laking Catalogue, No. 109)

derived from the East; for bronze sword daggers with exactly the same form of hilt dating from A.D. 400 to 600 have been obtained from Ardabil, Persia, on the south-west coast of the Caspian Sea (Fig. 823). A precursor of it can also be found in swords of yataghan type, a peculiarity of the early iron age of Spain, which have been discovered chiefly at Almedinilla, in the south-eastern angle of the province of Cordova, near Priego. In the Turkish and Circassian