16th century AD. A substantial cleaver with tapering rectangular blade with squared end, rivets exposed in the tang on one face and rivet heads visible above bone handle on the other, rounded butt and bifacial tear-shaped finger guard, decorated ovoid 'lug' to one face. 348 grams, 33cm (13"). Property of an English collector; acquired in the Netherlands before 2000. Possibly of German origin; may once have been combined with a wheellock pistol.