The iron hilt consists of a large spherical pommel with a prominent, but badly damaged, tang-button and a broad quillon-block with a rounded point towards the blade supporting a pair of straight quillons of oval section flattened in the plane of the blade; a knuckle-guard; and a pair of fairly large arms, the end of the rear one linked to the centre of the knuckle-guard by a long loop-guard, and the end of the forward arm supporting a straight bar projecting on the outside and slightly curved towards the blade. The end of the knuckle-guard plugs into the pommel. The inner guards consist of a spiral side-ring linking the root of the forward quillon with the end of the rear arm, and a U-shaped bar linking the ends of the arms and slightly curved towards the pommel. Encrusted all over the pommel and the outer side of the guards, except the inner guards, with fine wiry scrolls sprouting small flower heads, some at the centre of saltires of four small leaves, slightly larger, Rosaceae flowers, beech-like leaves and other longer leaves resembling the heads of wheat, all in silver against a blackened ground. On the faces of the pommel these longer leaves form a reticulated pattern. The guards on the inside of the hand and the inner face of the other guards are all now burnished. 

The slightly baluster-shaped, wooden grip of oval section is bound with silver wire: a plain, medium wire spirally bound with fine twist, all alternating with five fine wires. Turk’s-head ferrules. 

The plain, straight, double-edged blade, which is of flattened-hexagonal section, has a very shallow fuller of medium width. Incised in each fuller are the numbers 'x 1 x 4 x 1 x 4 x', and on the flat on each face, just beyond the end of the fuller, a mark of a stylized running wolf. The tip has been reground.

Hilt, English or possibly French, first quarter of the seventeenth century; blade, German (Solingen) contemporary with the hilt; grip, later