14th-15th century AD. An iron sword of pre-schiavonesca type with straight blade, no fullers, round tip, the S-curved cross-guard of 12a type, tapering tang, pommel of type I1 according to the classification of Aleksi?. See Aleksi?, M., Mediaeval Swords from Southeastern Europe, material from 12th to 15th century AD, Beograd, 2007, especially cat. n.268, pl.6,2.925 grams, 84.5cm (33"). Property of an East Anglia, UK, gentleman; acquired in the 1990s. The sword is virtually identical to the one found in the vicinity of the village Slep?evi?, some 10 km west of Šabac, western Serbia, and preserved in the National Museum in Šabac (inv. nr. ?/206"). It belongs to the type: XIII?/XVIa of Aleksi? classification. The deformation and subsequent reshaping of the cross-guards was not an infrequent practice in the Middle Ages. Some cross-guards were symmetrically and moderately curved (Aleksi?, 2007, no. 275, Pl.7:1), some were curved not in the regular horizontal plane but their arms were slightly turned upwards or downwards, as in our specimen (cross-guard type 12a").