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Introduction
The following list of swords is not comprehensive and only represents those currently known to the author. They have been categorised using Wheelers typology. Low quality images have been included to assist with identification and it is not the authors intention to infringe any copyrights by doing so.
The swords in this catalogue only include sword found in England, Scotland, Wales and surrounding isles. It does not include swords from Ireland. The swords listed here were not all made in Britain, many of them being made in Scandinavia or main land Europe. In the same way it is not a list of swords possibly made in England as many examples of these have been found all over Europe.
Index by County
ScotlandArgyll and Bute
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Isle of Man |
EnglandBerkshire
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Portable Antique Scheme
A number of pommels have been discovered on the PAS website. Not all of them have been incorporated in this list. If you want a fuller list than what is presented here to search the PAS database.
Type I
Petersen types M & Q. Rygh 489 & 493.
850AD? to 1025AD
In use from the prehistoric iron age in central Europe to as late as the C10th in Norway.
Scotland, Kirkcudbrightshire, St. Cuthbert’s Churchyard
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No Picture | England, Cumbria, Rampside Churchyard
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No Picture | England, Cumbria, Ormside, Appleby-in-Westmoreland
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England, Yorkshire, York, Clifford Street
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No Picture | Isle of Man, Balladoyne Churchyard, St. Johns
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England, Derbyshire, Repton
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England, London, River Thames, Waterloo Bridge
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England, London River Thames, ‘near London’
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Related Types P, Y & AE
Scotland, Elginshire, Strathspey
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No Picture | Isle of Man, St John’s Kirk German
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No Picture | Berkshire, Tilehurst station
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Type II Norwegian
Petersen Types B, C & H. 750AD to 960AD
Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Bute
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Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Islay
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Scotland, Orkney, Scar
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Scotland, Rousay, Sweindrow
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Scotland, Islay, Ballinaby
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No Picture | England, Derbyshire, Ingleby mound 7
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England, Hertfordshire, River Lea, Enfield
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England, London, River Thames, Vauxhall
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No Picture | London, River Thames, Mortlake
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Type III Danish
Petersen Types R, S & T. 800AD? to 900AD?
Isle of Man Cronk Moar
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London
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London, River Thames, Temple Church
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London, Chertsey
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Isle Of Man, Jurby
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Type IV Frankish
Petersen Types K & O. 790AD to 950AD
Petersen Type K
Scotland, Swordle Bay, Ardnamurchan
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York Coppergate
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Essex Colchester
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No Picture | Berkshire, River Kennet at Reading
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London, Fetter Lane
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Petersen Type O
Scotland, Outer Hebrides, Eriskay
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England, Cumbria, Hesket-in-Forest
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Isle of Man,
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London, River Thames, Kew
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Type V English
Petersen Types L. 850AD to 975AD
Scotland, Dumfriesshire, Ecclefechan
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England, Lancashire, Inskip
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England, Durham, Hurbuck
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Yorkshire, Gilling West
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Yorkshire, Ingleton, Scales Moor
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Yorkshire, Wensley Churchyard
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Yorkshire, Acomb
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Yorkshire, Bedale
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Yorkshire, York, Coppergate
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Yorkshire, York, Fishergate
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Yorkshire, York, Fishergate
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Isle of Man, Ballaugh
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Isle of Man, St. Maughold
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Nottingham
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Repton
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River Witham, Fiskerton
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Cambridgeshire, Hauxton Mill
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Norfolk, River Wensum, Norwich
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Norfolk, Gooderstone
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Norfolk, Santon Downham
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Suffolk, Kersey
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Oxford, Abingdon
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Oxford, Wallingford Bridge
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London, River Thames, Westminster
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London, River Thames, Windsor
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London, River Thames
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Unprovenanced
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Type VI Danish
Petersen Types L 'variant' 900AD? to 1050AD?
Yorkshire, York, Camphill
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Lincs, River Witham, Lincoln
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Norfolk, Mileham
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London, River Thames, Staines
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London, River Thames, Shifford
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London, River Thames, Brentford
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London, River Thames, off the Temple
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London, River Thames, Kings Reach
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London, River Thames, Vauxhall, Wandsworth Reach
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Type VII
Petersen Types U, V & X (early style) 850AD to 1000AD?
Petersen Type U, V
Isle of Man, Ballateare
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Cambs, River Nene
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Herts, River Lea, Hertford
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Herts, River Lea, Edmonton
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Petersen Type X
Cumbria, Workington, Lake District
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Isle of Man, Knoc-y-doonee
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York
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York
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Notts, Nottingham
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Notts, Farndon Church, Newark
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Type VIII
Brazil Nut 950AD to 1300AD?
Cambridgeshire, River Great Ouse
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Type IX
1000AD to 1300AD?
No known swords from Britain
Type X
1050AD to 1300AD?
England, Lancashire, Claughton Hall
The illustration of the sword is from a watercolour by Edward Jones. In 1846 he illustrated the Claughton items held by the Society of Antiquities of London. An earlier watercolour was made by the amateur antiquarian John Weld and found as a loose leaf in his sketch book and bearing the date 1834. There are a number of differences between the two drawings including the shape of the crossbar. Weld shows it as being straight where as Jones shows it being slightly curved. |
Unique Swords and those of other styles
Viking Age swords not covered by Wheeler
Scotland, Eigg
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Cawood
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Lincolnshire, Canwick Common, Lincoln
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Reading
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Cambridgeshire, Raven’s Willow nr. Peterbourgh
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London, Battersea
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Swords that cannot be classified
Swords that are too decayed to identify
No Picture | Scotland, Sandy
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No Picture | Isle of Man, Old Kirk Braddan
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No Picture | England, Cumbria, Aspatria
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Swords still awaiting classification
Swords so far unidentified by the authors
No Picture | Lancs, Witherslack
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No Picture | England, Cumbria, Witherslack
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No Picture | England, Lancashire, Eaglesfield
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No Picture | England, Nottinghamshire, Nottingham
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No Picture | England, London, River Thames
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No Picture | England, London, River Thames, Vauxhall
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No Picture | England, London, River Thames, Vauxhall
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See Also
References
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