Bollock dagger

The guard is often in one piece with the wooden grip, and reinforced on top with a shaped metal washer.

The dagger was popular in Scandinavia, Flanders, Wales, Scotland and England between the 13th and 18th centuries, in particular the Tudor period.

Within Britain the bollock dagger was commonly carried, including by Border Reivers, as a backup for the lance and the sword.

In the Victorian period, weapon historians introduced the term kidney dagger, due to the two lobes at the guard, which could also be seen as kidney-shaped, in order to avoid any sexual connotation.

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Design of a guard for a ballock-dagger with top mount of the scabbard , by Hans Holbein the Younger , c. 1536–1538
A set of bollock daggers found on board the 16th century ship Mary Rose . The blades have either completely corroded or remain only in the form of concretions.