A Bundle Of Bollocks

Does what it says on the tin….

Purse Bollock Dagger 

PLEASE NOTE THE OVERALL LENGTH OF THIS DAGGER IS 29CM.

Bollock daggers come in all shapes and sizes and were hugely popular over large parts of Europe, particularly northern and into Scandanavia. As well as the larger fighting daggers we are more familiar with, in manuscripts you see lots of much smaller daggers which are often worn in conjunction with a purse or belt pouch. So presumably to make a convenient package of dagger, purse and belt the dagger is threaded through slits in the back of the purse or the belt loops. This dagger represents one of these small but still formidable purse daggers. 1350-1500.

Blade length 17cm/7 inches

Grip length (halfway over balls) 9.5cm/3.75 inches 

Overall length 29cm/11.5 inches 

Dot and Circle Bollock Dagger 

This medieval bollock dagger is a composite from a few sources and has a double edged blade with an asymmetric grind and a wooden handle decorated with the ever popular ‘dot and circle’ design and finished off with a brass peen washer.

The sheath is a double layer veg tan construction and decorated with incised and punched patterns and finished with a fabricated brass chape.

The dagger is sharp with a 1mm edge.

Blade length 22cm/8.5″

Grip length 9cm/3.75″

Overall length 34cm/13.5″