Miscellaneous Arms

   This weapon is with a handle, shaped like that of sword. There is a large nose shaped blade with small spear like projections on three ends.

Swords
  
    The sword with ornamental hilt, main bar of handle bent and connected with cross bar by an ornamental curved bar with Makara Mukha (crocodile face) worked on it. Also a snake's hood with nine heads with the figure of Kaliya Krishna carved on it in high relief attached to the handle and serving as a protection for the hand.

Emden

    As far as the Madras is concerned, one of the most well known episodes of the First World War (1914 - 1918) was the bombardment of Emden. This episode created such a sensation, that "Emden" has become a word in popular usage.

     On the night of 22nd September at 9.30 PM. the Emden shelled the British oil installations at Chennai near Harbour and set ablaze two tanks with half a million gallons of kerosene. It took one and half days to put out the fire. Another bomb fell on the wall of the Chennai High Court and its fragments are in the collection of the Government Museum, Chennai and of the Fort Museum. A third bomb, fell opposite to the Fort St. George in the sand and it did not explode.

First Century Iron Anchor (rusted) recovered from Kovalam village on the east coast road has been displayed in the Government Museum, Chennai. A large number of finished and unfinished Sculptures have been found here. This is a reputed Pallava settlement.