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(a) (British Museum); (b)  (British Museum); (c)  (Collection of Godfrey Williams, Esq.); (d)  (London Museum). The hilt three-quarter scale

detail, although greatly out of scale (Fig. 14). That they are represented in exaggeration as to size we can satisfy ourselves when we look at the Gargantuan sword arm and hand of the foremost king. As these are so much out of proportion, we may be assured that the sword was not actually six