Basket-hilted sword
![A typical schiavona of the late 17th century.](/Images/godic/202502/09/Schiavona-Morges0533.jpg")
![Juxtaposition of an early broadsword with quillons with a 17th-century schiavona, from The Encyclopaedia of Sport & Games (1911)](/Images/godic/202502/09/Broadswords0533.JPG")
![Portrait of Donald McBane, a Scottish fencing master, from Donald McBane's The Expert Swordsman's Companion (1728). This image portrays McBane in the](/Images/godic/202502/09/Mcbane20533.jpg")
![A painting by David Morier (1705?–1770) depicting one of the final moments of the last Jacobite Rebellion. At the Battle of Culloden, the last Battle fought on British soil. Notice the Broadswords depicted.](/Images/godic/202502/09/The_Battle_of_Culloden0533.jpg")
The basket-hilted sword is the name of a group of sword types of the early modern era characterized by a basket-shaped guard that protects the hand. The basket hilt is a development of the quillons added to swords' crossguards since the Late Middle Ages. In modern times, this variety of sword is also sometimes referred to as the broadsword.