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Swords found in Britain

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|[[File:sword_rampside.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Rampside]]
|'''Cumbria, Rampside Churchyard ''':Current Location- ?Municipal Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
:Blade-
:Hilt- Petersen type M
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.18]
:Comments- Found before 1909
|- valign="top" id="Appleby"
|[[File:sword_appleby.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Appleby]]
|'''Cumbria, Ormside, Appleby-in-Westmoreland'''
:Current Location- ?Tullie House Museum:Blade- Total length 35.5”, blade length 31”.
:Hilt- Petersen type M
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.18]
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|'''Yorkshire, York, Clifford Street'''
:Current Location- ?Yorkshire Museum
:Blade- none
:Hilt- Petersen type M?. Only the undecorated guard of whale bone survives.
|No Picture
|'''Isle of Man, Balladoyne Churchyard, St. Johns'''
:Current Location- ?Manx Museum (Unknown find Date)
:Blade-
:Hilt- Petersen type M
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.26]
:Comments- Length 32” although possibly about 4” of the blade is missing. Part of the wooden grip remains.
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|width="100pt"| [[File:sword_waterloo.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Waterloo]]
|width="600pt"| '''London, River Thames, Waterloo Bridge'''
:Current Location- ?London Museum A 3670
:Blade-
:Hilt- Petersen Classed by Wheeler as a type MI and by Bjorn as a type H. Missing pommel. The guards are striped with brass inlay.
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.36] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78]
:Comments- Was originally in the Laking collection.
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|[[File:near_london.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Near London]]
|'''London River Thames, ‘near London’'''
:Current Location- ?London Museum A 17923
:Blade-
:Hilt- Petersen type M
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.36] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78]
:Comments- wooden handle covered in linen.
 
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|'''Berkshire, River Kennet at Reading'''
:Current Location- ?
:Blade- Point missing 25.5” long:Hilt- Petersen type Oor K? Rivet hole hence cap missing.
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.58]
:Comments- Remaining fragments of oak grip. Part of an oak? scabbard is also still attached to the blade.
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|[[File:sword_kew.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Kew]]
|'''London, River Thames, Kew'''
:Current Location- ?British Museum 1891, 0905 3:Blade- Total length 753mm, blade length 630mm. blade engraved with makers mark, INGELRll. On the reverse engraved with SITANBI or IBNATIS (?) :Hilt- Classed as a Petersen type Oby Peirce and as Peteren type Q on the British Museum web site. Missing pommel:Bibliography- [PEIRCE 2002:p.90] [http://www.britishmuseum.org/system_pages/beta_collection_introduction/beta_collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=66361&partId=1&searchText=viking%20sword&numpages=427&page=1]:Comments- Remains of wooden sheath on sword blade.
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