Show A FENCE OF OLD SCOTCH SWORDS From the Saturday Review That the swords of his gallant adherents ad-herents who fell on Drumossie Moor should be found by a descendant of his hereditary enemy of Argyll in a fence at Twickenham is certainly a very singular sin-gular circumstance In his pamphlet Notes on Swords from the Battlefield of Culloden C J Clark Lord Archibald Arch-ibald Campbell gave an account of his discovery with some notes on the blades and on Andrea Ferrara Some years ago Lord Archibald whose knowledge know-ledge of dirks and claymores is extensive exten-sive heard that there existed such fence of steel Years passed again a then he found the fence in a back y at Richmond It is described by Rev R S Corbett in his Memoria Twickenham Twickenham Houst longed to Dr Johnsons very unci liable Sir John Hawkins The n < u information came from Mr Edwdrd Ross the famous rifle Shot who had seen the hedge of blades in situ They were said by Dr Diamond to have been made into the fence of a flower garden by a Lord Tweedale When Lord Archibald secured these heroic relics he found that six inches had been broken from the point of each blade while the tang of the hilt end had also been shortened They were welded into two horizontal Iron bars The paint which covered them has preserved pre-served the metal so well that they areas are-as good as on the day when they were first forged There are five kinds ot swords 1 a broad doubleedged bladij with a heavy centre rib a ns tr small sword 2 a broadbackeds Kl with a single cutting edge Theseware often stamped with a fleur de lys and we presume came over with Fitzjames horse or frovn other French sources but some are of English make 3 There are small swords some without groove the rib rising in the center Andrea An-drea Ferrers name is on the short groove of other smallswords a thing very unusual 4 There are Highland broadswords proper with one two or three grooves or flutings Andreas name Is in the grooves 5 There area are-a few Hanoverian swords two bear a crowned G R |