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Swords found in Britain

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== Other Types ==
''Viking Age swords not covered by Wheeler''
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|- valign="top" id="Reading"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_reading.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Reading ]]
|width="600pt"|'''Reading'''
:Current Location-
:Blade-
:Hilt- Pommel missing. Hilt and guard decorated in gripping beasts.
:Bibliography- [EAST nd:p.2]
:Comments- Rediscovered after 150 years after being considered lost. Made between c.750AD but probably buried just after 800AD.
 
|- valign="top" id="Raven"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_raven.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Ravens Willow ]]
|width="600pt"|'''Cambridgeshire, Raven’s Willow nr. Peterbourgh'''
:Current Location-
:Blade-
:Hilt- Petersen type N
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.61,63-64]
:Comments- Later half of C9th
 
|- valign="top" id="John"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_john.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=St John’s Kirk German]]
|width="600pt"|'''Isle of Man, St John’s Kirk German'''
:Current Location-
:Blade-
:Hilt- Petersen type P?
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.25-26]
:Comments- fragment of sword with pommel and guard
 
|- valign="top" id="John"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_john.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=St John’s Kirk German]]
|width="600pt"|'''Lincolnshire, Canwich Common, Lincoln'''
:Current Location-
:Blade- Illegible script
:Hilt- Petersen type Q? Pommel not of Q style
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.98-99]
:Comments- pommel not of Q form
 
|- valign="top" id="Tilehurst"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_tilehurst.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Tilehurst station]]
|width="600pt"|'''Berkshire, Tilehurst station'''
:Current Location- Reading Museum
:Blade-
:Hilt- Petersen type Y
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.58]
:Comments-
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== Unknown Types ==
''Swords so far unidentified''
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|- valign="top" id="Claughton"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_claughton.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Claughton]]
|width="600pt"|'''Lancs, Claughton Hall'''
:Current Location- Now missing
:Blade-
:Hilt-
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.18]
:Comments-
 
|- valign="top" id="Witherslack"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_witherslack.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Witherslack]]
|width="600pt"|'''Lancs, Witherslack'''
:Current Location-
:Blade-
:Hilt-
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.74]
:Comments-
 
 
|- valign="top" id="Nottingham"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_nottingham.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Nottingham]]
|width="600pt"|'''Nottingham'''
:Current Location-
:Blade- None
:Hilt- Only a pommel
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.15]
:Comments-
 
|- valign="top" id="Thames"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_thames.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Thames]]
|width="600pt"|'''London, River Thames'''
:Current Location- Tullie House Museum, Carlisle
:Blade-
:Hilt-
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.81]
:Comments-
 
|- valign="top" id="Vauxhall1"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_vauxhall1.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Vauxhall]]
|width="600pt"|'''London, River Thames, Vauxhall'''
:Current Location-
:Blade-
:Hilt- 3 lobed pommel
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.81]
:Comments-
 
|- valign="top" id="Vauxhall2"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_vauxhall2.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Vauxhall]]
|width="600pt"|'''London, River Thames, Vauxhall'''
:Current Location- Unknown
:Blade-
:Hilt-
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.53]
:Comments- Wheeler only mentions ‘Information from Mr G. F. Lawrence’
 
 
 
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