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France: L'Ile de Groix

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Fragment of the guard of a sword of iron, with plain bronze inlay, and three-lobed pommel of the same sword, Jan Petersen type R.
|- valign="top" id="Sword Scabbard Chape"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Sword Scabbard Chape.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''Sword Scabbard Chape'''
The ferrule of a sword's scabbard, of bronze, with open-work ornament presenting the figure of a bird with wings spread.
|- valign="top" id="Spear heads"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Spear heads.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''Spear heads'''
Small fragments of three spear-heads, one of them of Jan Petersen type I. R.522.
 
|- valign="top" id="Axe heads"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Axe heads.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''Axe heads'''
Fragments of two axes, both of them apparently of Jan Petersen type G.
 
|- valign="top" id="Arrow heads"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Arrow heads.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''Arrow heads'''
Fragments of 8 arrow-heads of iron, R.539.
 
|- valign="top" id="Scandinavian Shield bosses"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Scandinavian Shield bosses.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''17 Scandinavian Shield bosses'''
Fragments of 17 shield-bosses all of them badly broken and defective. The majority are of the regular Norse type R.562, hemispherical, with a flat rim fastened to the board by four rivets, and with a slight contraction between the boss and the rim.
 
|- valign="top" id="Other Shield bosses"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Other Shield bosses.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''4 Other Shield bosses'''
Four of the bosses present forms never found in Scandinavia. The boss itself is plain and rounded, somewhat steeper than the hemisphere. In two of them the rim is provided with six pointed projections, each of them with three rivets, while two others have the rim provided with eight rounded projections, each of them likewise bearing three rivets. One fragment of a rim shows a densely set series of rivet-holes and the border finely indented and the border finely indented.
 
|- valign="top" id="Knife"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Knife.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''Knife'''
Fragment of the blade of an iron knife.
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