Posts: 455 Location: Thailand
Sat 31 Jul, 2004 5:01 am
Hi Ken,
Great photos, and in one of them you may have a key to a puzzle that I've been trying to solve for a long time. Here's the puzzle: Mortuary swords were a very common English type in the mid 1600s, yet I've never seen one that was used in the colonies; every other type of English sword saw service over here, why not the Morts?
So in the 4th photo down ( the one with the 4
English swords), the top one is a Mortuary sword. Do all of the swords in Fort Ti have documented American colonial useage? Or are they just examples of swords that could have been used here?
Thanks in advance! --ElJay