Highland Claymore Sword

Based on Original: Circa Mid-16th Century, Private Collection Overall Length: 56" Blade Length: 40.1" Blade Width: 2.1" Guard Width: 12.6" Grip Length: 12" Balance Point: 3.5" Weight: 5.2 lbs / 2350 g The claymore is one of the most recognizable swords in history. A uniquely Scottish two handed sword first appearing at the beginning of the sixteenth Century, it is almost certainly a development of the Scots-Irish single hand style of sword. Shorter and lighter, in general, than the continental two-hander, the average Claymore ran about 55 inches in overall length, with a ~13 inch grip and a ~42 inch blade. Fairly uniform in style, the sword was set with a wheel pommel often capped by a crescent-shaped nut and a guard with straight, down-sloping arms ending in quatrefoils and langets running down the center of the blade from the guard.Every able-bodied man in the Highlands carried arms, as can be attested to by John Hume in the passage below written on his experience as a prisoner afte