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Hervé Caillau
Location: France Joined: 21 Aug 2006
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 Posted: Tue 22 Aug, 2006 3:13 am Post subject: Dordogne swords |
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Hi,
I am looking for pictures of the XVth swords found in the river Dordogne in the 1970's. Mr Oakeshott often referred to this find. Some were well preserved.
Clearly, I don't need pictures of the supposed reproductions of these swords. I would like pictures of the real ones !
If someone can help, I would appreciate.
All the best.
Hervé le gascon
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Geoff Wood
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| Posted: Tue 22 Aug, 2006 3:42 am Post subject: Re: Dordogne swords |
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| Hervé Caillau wrote: |
Hi,
I am looking for pictures of the XVth swords found in the river Dordogne in the 1970's. Mr Oakeshott often referred to this find. Some were well preserved.
Clearly, I don't need pictures of the supposed reproductions of these swords. I would like pictures of the real ones !
If someone can help, I would appreciate.
All the best.
Hervé le gascon |
Hi
Here's a link to one.
http://www.vikingsword.com/vmuseum/vmxva7.html
Geoff
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Fabrice Cognot
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Nathan Robinson
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Don Stanko
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I do own one of the swords, but it is not in particularly good shape. The quillons are missing and it is heavily corroded. The one thing that had weathered well is the wood. Most of the scabbard is still clinging to the blade and the wooden handle is present. It is a very long, stiff sword, obviously made to penetrate armour.
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Russ Ellis
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| Don Stanko wrote: | | I do own one of the swords, but it is not in particularly good shape. The quillons are missing and it is heavily corroded. The one thing that had weathered well is the wood. Most of the scabbard is still clinging to the blade and the wooden handle is present. It is a very long, stiff sword, obviously made to penetrate armour. |
Any chance you could post some pictures?
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Nathan Robinson
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| Posted: Tue 22 Aug, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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Here are photos of 17 of the swords from the Dordogne River near Castillon-la-Battaille. These are amongst the some 80 or so swords found scattered throughout the find. The variety of items and sheer size of this find makes it important.
The lot is divided into two groups of similar swords with two additional ungrouped swords. Items in Group A are all single-handed swords with stout blades and wheel pommels. Group B contains swords that are more proportioned for hand-and-a-half use, having a longer tang/grip and longer, more slender blades. They are all Type XV or Type XVIII (or one of their subtypes).
The remaining two swords include a large two-hander and a shorter single-hander with a rare spherical pommel of Oakeshott Type R form.
These swords are now scattered throughout various collections of the world but mostly rest within private collections.
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Swords from the Dordogne River near Castillon-la-Battaille
Large two-hander (115cm blade)
Smaller one-hander (62.5cm blade) with spherical pommel
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Swords from the Dordogne River near Castillon-la-Battaille
Groups A + B (15 of 17 swords)
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Eric Allen
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In a word:
Wow! 
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Roger Hooper
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Thanks for those picturres, Nathan. I've never seen so many of the Castillon swords together before.
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Randall Moffett
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The museum I am at has one of the castillon swords. I have some pictures but it may take some time to locate them. I will post it once found,
RPM
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Nathan Robinson
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Russ Ellis
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| Posted: Thu 24 Aug, 2006 5:53 am Post subject: |
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| Nathan Robinson wrote: | I've edited the Post Above to better describe the Dordogne/Castillon find.
It now shows 17 swords from the find, including two that are quite unlike the rest including a large two-hander and a very small one-hander with a rare spherical (Oakeshott Type R) pommel. |
Thanks Nathan! That's the single best group photo I've seen of all of these together. Very interesting, some of those look like the spitting image of some current production swords (or I suppose it's the other way around).
Now the question, I believe that I read somewhere that Oakeshott was able to identify one of the swords in the find as having belonged to John Talbot who was killed at Castillion in 1453. Does anyone know if it is one of these?
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Randall Moffett
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Russ,
I have never heard it was found but I have a picture or drawing of Talbot's effigy. That perhaps could be the link,
RPm
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Russ Ellis
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| Randall Moffett wrote: | Russ,
I have never heard it was found but I have a picture or drawing of Talbot's effigy. That perhaps could be the link,
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Any chance you can post the picture? I REALLY need to go find where I read that so that I can explain Oakeshott's methodology better. Perhaps it was in The Sword in Hand... I do not recall if he was looking at an effigial source or not. To me an effigy would be somewhat suspect just because one never knows how much artistic license might have been taken or how much current fashion (i.e. the fashion at the time the effigy was created) might have been taken into account rather then focusing on an actual portrayal of the real sword owned by the owner.
Has anyone ever done any reading about John Talbot or the Earl's of Shrewsbury in general? Fascinating stuff. It could easily be a fiction book (or series of them) or a movie.
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Randall Moffett
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Russ,
John Talbot was a reall interesting person. I will never understand the charge of castillon... I get tired of hearing as it was the great victory of the gun... gee the poor guy charges a fortified camp and is out numbered 3 to 1 by just the french archers! Victory of the cannon,hah poor guy, he must have thought he knew something the french didn't. I Pm'd you two pictures of the effigy (I hope, could not figure out how to post them on the board, perhaps my connection is just to slow?)
RPM
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Randall Moffett
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| Posted: Thu 24 Aug, 2006 11:12 am Post subject: |
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ignore that the pictures are too big...
RPM
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Russ Ellis
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| Randall Moffett wrote: | Russ,
John Talbot was a reall interesting person. I will never understand the charge of castillon... I get tired of hearing as it was the great victory of the gun... gee the poor guy charges a fortified camp and is out numbered 3 to 1 by just the french archers! Victory of the cannon,hah poor guy, he must have thought he knew something the french didn't. I Pm'd you two pictures of the effigy (I hope, could not figure out how to post them on the board, perhaps my connection is just to slow?)
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Hey Randall,
My theory is that Talbot got ahold of some bum information about just what he was facing, he thought he was moving on an unprepared French camp, not knowing that it was fortified and the French were waiting. A sad end (well for the English anyway I guess) of a storied career. Some of his descendants were pretty decent warriors in their own right. It's all in the genes.  The p.m. did not work either, you could always email them if you have the time to: ramellis1@bellsouth.net I'll resize and post...
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Craig Johnson
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| Posted: Fri 25 Aug, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: Talbot's sword |
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Hey Russ
I think, if I remeber correctly, that Ewart says one sword above the rest in the find was exceptionally fine and one could imagine that Talbot himself could have welded it as a warrior of such stature would almost certainly have a sword as fine as money could buy. It may have been illustartive of the quality of the swords feel than the actuall attribution to the lord as the owner of the sword. This is off the top of my memory so I will try and check and make sure that it is what I stated above. :-)
Craig
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