In February 2013, in commemoration of the forthcoming anniversary of the battle, and in the hope of learning more about the items, the College commissioned Dr Ralph Moffat, Curator of European Arms and Armour at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, an acknowledged expert on weaponry of the period, to conduct an examination of the sword and dagger. His report, which can be read here, confirms earlier expert opinion that the sword and dagger set date from the late sixteenth century. They cannot therefore have been present at the battle of Flodden. A slim possibility remains: that the sword blade itself may be earlier than the set.