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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.

Wheeler's Viking Sword Typology

Index by County

Scotland Argyll and Bute Bute (II) Colonsay (VII) Colonsay, Kiloran Bay (VII) Islay (II) Islay, Ballinaby (II) Lower Bridge of Froon, Boiden Mound (VI) Dumfries and Galloway Ecclefechan (V) St. Cuthbert’s Churchyard (I) Highland Ardnamurchan, Swordle Bay (IV) Eigg (-D) Eigg, Grave III (VII) Moray Strathspey (I) Na h-Eileanan Siar Eriskay (IV-O) North Ayrshire Lamlash, Mill Hill (-?) Orkney Sweindrow (II) Sanday (-?) Sanday, Sties (VII) Scar (II) Westray, Pierowall (VII) Isle of Man Balladoyne Churchyard, St. Johns (I) Ballaugh (V) Ballateare (VII) Cronk Moar (III) Jurby (III) Jurby, Ballachrink (-) Knoc-y-doonee (VII) Malew Parish Churchyard (-) Old Kirk Braddan (-?) Patrick, Ballabrooie (-) St John’s Kirk German (I) St Maughold (V) Tynwald Hill (-) Type O Pommel (IV-O) Wales Wales (VI) Small Reef (-?)

England Berkshire Newbury (X) Reading (I) Reading (-) River Kennet, Reading (IV) River Thames, Bray (VII) Sonning (-) Tilehurst station (I) Cambridgeshire Hauxton Mill (V) King's Dyke (-) Peterbourgh, Raven’s Willow (-N) River Cam, Clayhithe (-) River Great Ouse (VIII) River Nene (VII) Whittlesea Mere (X) Cumbria Aspatria (-?) Hesket-in-Forest (IV-O) Ormside, Appleby-in-Westmoreland (I) Rampside Churchyard (I) West Seaton (-) Witherslack (-) Workington, Lake District (VII) Derbyshire Ingleby (II) Repton (I) Repton (V) Repton (VII) Devon Exeter (-) Dorset River Frome, Wareham (VI) Durham Hurbuck (V) Essex Colchester (IV) Hertfordshire River Lea, Enfield (II) River Lea, Edmonton (VII) River Lea, Hertford (VII) Lancashire Claughton Hall (X) Eaglesfield (-) Heysham (-) Inskip (V) Lincolnshire Lincoln, Canwick Common (-?) River Witham, Fiskerton (V) River Witham, Lincoln (VI) River Witham (X) River Witham (X)

London Battersea (-?) Chertsey (III) Fetter Lane (IV) River Thames (V) River Thames (VI) River Thames, Brentford (VI) River Thames, Cowey Stakes (-) River Thames, Kew (IV-O) River Thames, Kings Reach (VI) River Thames, Mortlake (II) River Thames, ‘near London’ (I) River Thames, off the Temple (VI) River Thames, Shifford (VI) River Thames, Staines (VI) River Thames, Temple Church (III) River Thames, Wandsworth Reach (VI) River Thames, Waterloo Bridge (I) River Thames, Westminster (V) River Thames, Windsor (V) River Thames, Vauxhall (II) River Thames, Vauxhall (VI) River Thames, Vauxhall (-?) Sherborne (-) Westminster Palace (-) Windsor (-?) Type R Pommel (III) Norfolk Gooderstone (V) Norwich (-) Mileham (VI) River Wensum, Norwich (V) Santon Downham (V) Northumberland Northumberland (X) Nottinghamshire Newark, Farndon Church (VII) Nottingham (V) Nottingham (VI) Nottingham (VII) Oxfordshire Abingdon (V) Wallingford Bridge (V) Suffolk Kersey (V) Yorkshire Acomb (V) Bedale (V) Bedale Hoard (V) Camphill (VI) Cawood (-?) Gilling West (V) Ingleton, Scales Moor (V) Kildale (-) Wensley Churchyard (V) York (VII) York (VII) York, Clifford Street (I) York, Coppergate (IV) York, Coppergate (V) York, Fishergate Pommel(V) York, Fishergate Crossguard(V) York, Fishergate (VII) Unprovenanced Unprovenanced (V)

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, Dumfries and Galloway, St. Cuthbert’s Churchyard Current Location- Kirkcudbrightshire Museum no. 2050 Type- Grave find – undated Find Date- Unknown Total Length- 80cm (broken) Blade- Double edged. Length 70cm (broken so probably longer), width 6cm. Hilt- Like R.489. Portions of wooden handle. Scabbard- Parts of wood remain. Bibliography- [GRIEG 1940:p.13]
No Picture	England, Cumbria, Rampside Churchyard Current Location- Municipal Museum, Barrow-in-Furness BAWMS.09000 Type- Grave find (in a Christian Churchyard). 850-900AD. Find Date- 1909 Total Length- ? Blade- 40cm survives, single-edged. Hilt- Petersen type M, Wheeler type I Scabbard- fragments of iron imregnated wood were found Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.18] [EDWARDS 1998:p.21] [RICHARDS 2004:p.191]
No Picture	England, Cumbria, Ormside, Appleby-in-Westmoreland Current Location- Tullie House Museum Type- Grave find. 850-900AD. Find Date- before 1898 Total Length- 35.5” (Complete?) Blade- Length 31” (79cm) Hilt- Petersen type M, Wheeler type I Scabbard- none Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.18] [RICHARDS 2004:p.191]
	England, Yorkshire, York, Clifford Street Current Location- Yorkshire Museum Type- Unknown Find Date- Unknown Total Length- N/A Blade- Missing Hilt- Petersen type M?. Only the undecorated guard of whale bone survives. Scabbard- none Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.96] [ROESDAHL 1981:p.114 YAB30] [MacGREGOR 1985:p.167] [ROGERS 1993:p.1431]
No Picture	Isle of Man, Balladoyne Churchyard, St. Johns Current Location- Manx Museum Type- Grave find (in a Christian Churchyard). Undated. Find Date- Unknown Total Length- 32” (possible about 4” missing) Blade- no information Hilt- Petersen type M, Wheeler type I. No ornament. Part of the wooden grip remains. Scabbard- None Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.26]
	England, Derbyshire, Repton (M) Current Location- Derby Museum Type- Grave find c.873AD Find Date- 1986? Total Length- 89.7cm Blade- length 77.3cm, width 6.2cm. Hilt- Petersen type M. grip constructed of strips covered in tabby weave textile. Scabbard- made from two lengths of wood, lined with hairy skin. Outside covered in leather. Bibliography- [BIDDLE and KJBLBYE-BIDDLE 1992:p.49]
	England, Berkshire, Reading Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Pommel missing. Hilt and guard decorated in gripping beasts. Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.11] [EAST nd:p.2] Comments- Rediscovered after 150 years after being considered lost. Made between c.750AD but probably buried just after 800AD.
	England, London, River Thames, Waterloo Bridge Current Location- London Museum A 3670. Was previously in the Laking collection. Type- River find, C9th Find Date- Unknown Total Length- (part of blade missing) Blade- no information Hilt- Classed by Wheeler as type I, by Bjorn as Type H? Both guards are striped with brass inlay. Bjorn considers the pommel to be missing? Scabbard- none Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.36] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78] [WILSON 1965:p.52 (no.21)]
	England, London River Thames, ‘near London’ Current Location- London Museum A 17923 Type- River find, Not before 900AD. Find Date- Unknown Total Length- (part of blade missing) Blade- no information Hilt- Petersen type M, Wheeler type I. Part of a wooden handle survives, covered in a course linen. Scabbard- none Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.36] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78] [WILSON 1965:p.52 (no.22)]

Related Types P, Y & AE

	Scotland, Moray, Strathspey Current Location- National Museum of Scotland. L.A. 1 Type- Unknown. Found in an excavation of a railway cutting. Find Date- Before 1864. Total Length- 88cm (Complete) Blade- Double edged. Length 77cm (complete), width 5cm. Probably pattern welded. Hilt- Petersen type P. Both cross-pieces are decorated with untwisted silver and copper wires. Scabbard- None Bibliography- [ANDERSON 1872:p.567] [GRIEG 1940:p.159]
No Picture	Isle of Man, St John’s Kirk German Current Location- Manx Museum Type- Found in a field near a burial. Find Date- Unknown Total Length- (fragmentary) Blade- no information Hilt- Probably Petersen type P. Traces of silver ornament on pommel and guard. Scabbard- None Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.25-26]
No Picture	England, Berkshire, Tilehurst station Current Location- Reading Museum Type- Unknown, found during road widening. C10th Find Date- Sept. 1917. Total Length- 23” (part of blade missing) Blade- Double edged – cap and upper guard are not separate. Hilt- Petersen type Y Scabbard- None Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.58]

Type II Norwegian

Petersen Types B, C & H. 750AD to 960AD

	Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Bute Current Location- Bute Natural Museum Type- Unknown Find date- before 1911 Total length- 17.3cm (blade and pommel missing) Blade- 3cm remaining attached to hilt and 6 other iron fragments. Width 5.5cm. Hilt- like Petersen fig.85 (Type H). pommel missing. Small remains of wood still attached to tang. Scabbard- remains of wood still attached to two of the blade fragments Bibliography- [GRIEG 1940:p.165]
	Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Islay Current Location- Lost Type- Unknown Find date- before 1776 Total length- Blade- Hilt- like Rygh 494. Pommel cap missing. The upper and lower cross-pieces were once plated with copper or bronze ribs. Scabbard- Bibliography- [PENNANT 1776:pl. XLIV] [ANDERSON 1872:p.567 no.4] [GRIEG 1940:p.165] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 2004:p.211-222 fig.4]
	Scotland, Orkney, Scar Current Location- Type- Boat Burial More information… Find date- 1991 Blade- Hilt- Petersen type H Scabbard- Bibliography- [OWEN and DALLAND 1999:p.108]
	Scotland, Orkney, Rousay, Sweindrow Current Location- National Museum of Scotland I.L. 191-192 Type- Unknown. Found by ploughing. Find Date- 1826 Blade- Double edged. About 9 fragments of the blade are preserved. Hilt- type Rygh 494 but with bronze ferrules. The bronze ferrules are adorned with stamped Triangles Scabbard - Some remains of wood are attached by rust to the blade, probably remains of the scabbard Bibliography- [ANDERSON 1872:p.564] [GRIEG 1940: p.89-90]
	Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Islay, Ballinaby Current Location- National Museum of Scotland Type- Grave Find Find date- 1878 Blade- Hilt- Petersen type H (like Rygh 494). Parts of wooden group survive. No metal mountings. Scabbard- Possible a little of the scabbard survives Bibliography- [GRIEG 1940:p.31-32] [ANDERSON 1879:p.51]
No Picture	England, Derbyshire, Ingleby mound 7 Current Location- Type- Grave Find Find date- 1948 Blade- Hilt- Petersen type H. Scabbard- Bibliography- [RICHARDS 1995:p.54, 69] [RICHARDS 2004:p.191, 196]
	England, Hertfordshire, River Lea, Enfield Current Location Prince Ladislaus Odescalchi Collection, Rome. Type- from a possible boat burial Find date- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type C Scabbard- Bibliography- [LAKING 1920:p.16] [WHEELER 1927:p.34, 53] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.12,60] [OAKESHOTT 1960:p135] [WILSON 1965:p52(no.7)]
	England, London, River Thames, Vauxhall (H) Current Location- London Museum 13591 Type- Find date- Blade- Fragmentary Hilt- Petersen type H. The hilt has traces of brass inlay. The pommel is missing Scabbard- Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.37] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.81]
No Picture	England, London, River Thames, Mortlake Current Location- ? Type- Find date- Blade- single-edged Hilt- none but Oakeshott suggests that this blade may have belonged to a type II sword. Scabbard- Bibliography- [OAKESHOTT 1960:p135]

Type III Danish

Petersen Types R, S & T. 800AD? to 900AD?

	Isle of Man, Cronk Moar Current Location- Type- Find date- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type S Scabbard- found with remains of scabbard Bibliography- [BERSU and WILSON 1966:p.72] [WILSON 2008:p.36]
File:Sword london.jpg 100x150px	England, London, Type R Pommel Current Location- Type- Find date- Blade- None Hilt- Petersen type R. Only the pommel of the sword survives Scabbard- Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78] [WHEELER 1927:p.53] [WILSON 1965:p.52 (no.12)]
File:Sword temple.jpg 100x150px	England, London, Type R Pommel Current Location- Type- Find Date- Total Length- 885mm Blade- 723mm Hilt- Petersen type S. Pommel and guard plated with silver, and decorated in copper inlay of Jellinge style. The grip is covered by a binding of silver wire with a plaited band of silver wire at the top and bottom. Scabbard- Bibliography- [PEIRCE 2002:p.104] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77,80] [ROESDAHL and WILSON 1992: cat.413 p.335] [WILSON 1965:p.52 (no.15)] British Museum Comments- also known as “Earl of Pembroke Sword”
File:Sword chertsey.jpg 100x150px	England, London, Chertsey Current Location- Type- Find date- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type S Scabbard- Bibliography- [PEIRCE 2002:p.98][1]
File:Sword jurby.jpg 100x150px	Isle Of Man, Jurby Current Location- re-interred in ground Type- Find date- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type S - described as having a straight guard and 3 lobed pommel. Scabbard- Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.22]

Type IV Frankish

Petersen Types K & O. 790AD to 950AD

Petersen Type K

	Scotland, Highland, Ardnamurchan, Swordle Bay Current Location- Type- Boat Burial. Late C10th / early C11th Find date- 2011 Total length- 75cm (fragmentary) Blade- width 6.46cm Hilt- Petersen type K (or possibly P). Bronze. Guard decorated with silver and copper alloy. Silver wire separating the 5 lobes. The grip is of bone, antler or ivory with a bronze core. Scabbard- Bibliography- [HARRIS, COBB, GRAY and RICHARDSON 2011:p.17, 38]
	England, York Coppergate (K) Current Location- Yorkshire Museum Type- Find date- Blade- Missing Hilt- Petersen type K. Whalebone pommel Scabbard- None Bibliography- [MacGREGOR 1999:p.1945]
	England, Essex, Colchester Current Location- Returned to finder Type- Metal Detector Find date- 1979 Blade- half missing Hilt- Petersen type K. Scabbard- None Bibliography- PAS
No Picture	England, Berkshire, River Kennet, Reading Current Location- Type- River Find Find date- Blade- Point missing 25.5” long Hilt- Petersen type O or K? Rivet hole hence cap missing. Remaining fragments of oak grip. Scabbard- Part of an oak? scabbard is also still attached to the blade. Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.58] [WILSON 1965:p.52 (no.25)]
	England, London, Fetter Lane Current Location- British Museum. c.800AD? Type- Find date- Blade- None Hilt- Gilt silver pommel with nielloed engraved pattern Scabbard- Bibliography- [OAKESHOTT 1960:p.136] [DAVIDSON 1962:Pl.III no.b,c] [WHEELER 1927 p.53] British Museum Comments- the BM website dates this pommel to the late C8th and Wheeler dates it to c.800AD.

Petersen Type O

	Scotland, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Eriskay Current Location- Museum of Scotland Type- Find date- Given to Museum in 1906. Blade- 6 fragments of blade. Double edged. Hilt- Petersen type O (Like Petersen fig.104). Part of wooden grip survives. Scabbard- Bibliography- [GREIG 1940:p.73,74]
	England, Cumbria, Hesket-in-Forest Current Location- The Tullie House Museum Type- Grave find - early C10th Find date- 1822 Blade- Sword deliberately damaged. Bent back twice on itself by heating and hammering. Hilt- Petersen type O Scabbard- Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.19] [EDWARDS 1992:p.45] [RICHARDS 2004:p.191 pl.18] [WILSON 2008:p.52]
	Isle of Man, Type O Pommel Current Location- Type- Find date- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type O Scabbard- Bibliography- iomtoday.co.im
	England, London, River Thames, Kew Current Location- British Museum 1891, 0905 3 Type- Find date- 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 O by Peirce and as Peteren type Q on the British Museum web site. Missing pommel Scabbard- Remains of wooden sheath on sword blade. Bibliography- [PEIRCE 2002:p.90] [2]

Type V English

Petersen Types L. 850AD to 975AD

	Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, Ecclefechan Current Location- National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh I.L. 340 Type- Find date- 1913 Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L (like Petersen p.116, fig.97a) Scabbard- Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35] [GRIEG 1940:p.13,16]
	England, Lancashire, Inskip Current Location- Type- Find date- 1889 Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L? Scabbard- Bibliography- [EDWARDS 1998:p.20]
File:Sword hurbuck.jpg 100x150px	England, Durham, Hurbuck Current Location- British Museum Type- Find date- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Scabbard- Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35][PEIRCE 2002:p.76]
	England, Yorkshire, Gilling West Current Location- Type- Find date- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Scabbard- Bibliography- [THOMPSON 2004:p.109] [ROESDAHL 1981:p.44] [WATKIN 1986:p.93-99]
	England, Yorkshire, Ingleton, Scales Moor Current Location- British Museum BM 1944,0301.1 Type- Find date- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Scabbard- Bibliography- [WILSON 1964:p.165-166 no.65]
	England, Yorkshire, Wensley Churchyard Current Location- British Museum: 1965,0703.1 Type- Burial Find date- Total length- 81.5cm (tip of blade missing) Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Scabbard- Bibliography- [THOMPSON 2004:p.110] [DAVIDSON 1962:p54 pl.XI no.71] [WILSON 1965: no.9] [RICHARDS 2004:p.191] British Museum
	England, Yorkshire, Acomb Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [YOUNG 1984][ROGERS 1993:p.1431]
File:Sword bedale.jpg 100x150px	England, Yorkshire, Bedale Current Location- British Museum Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35]
File:Sword bedale hoard.jpg 100x150px	England, Yorkshire, Bedale Hoard Current Location- Find Date- 2012 Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- PAS
File:Sword coppergate.jpg 100x150px	England, Yorkshire, York, Coppergate (L) Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [OTTAWAY 1992:p.3943]
File:Sword fishergate1.jpg 100x150px	England, Yorkshire, York, Fishergate (L1) Current Location- Blade- None Hilt- Petersen type L. Only the pommel survives. Bibliography- [ROGERS 1993:p.1432]
File:Sword fishergate2.jpg 100x150px	England, Yorkshire, York, Fishergate (L2) Current Location- Blade- None Hilt- Petersen type L. Only the Cross guard survives. Bibliography- [ROGERS 1993:p.1432]
	Isle of Man, Ballaugh Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35][BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.22][WILSON 2008:p.54] Comments-
	Isle of Man, St. Maughold Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35][BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.23] Comments- missing pommel
File:Sword nottingham.jpg 100x150px	England, Nottinghamshire, Nottingham (L) Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35] Comments- Wheeler identifies this sword as probably being this type but states that the sword is damaged.
	England, Derbyshire, Repton (L) Current Location- Type- found in the midst of a large collection of human bones Find date- 1839 Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [BIGSBY 1854:p.251-252] [BIDDLE and KJBLBYE-BIDDLE 1992:p.39-40] Comments- Was not recognised as Viking until the 1980’s.
	England, Lincolnshire, River Witham, Fiskerton Current Location- Sheffield City Museum J. 1954.3 Type- River find Find date- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [DAVIDSON 1962:p.54 & pl.X no.66] [WILSON 1965:p.34 no.2 (no.7)]
File:Sword hauxton.jpg 100x150px	England, Cambridgeshire, Hauxton Mill Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35] Comments-
	England, Norfolk, River Wensum, Norwich Current Location- British Museum (54, 11-7, 12) Type- Find date- presented to the BM in 1854 Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35][MARGESEN 1997:p.10-11] [WILSON 1965: no.8] Comments- Unknown find date. Presented to the BM in 1854.
	England, Norfolk, Gooderstone Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WILSON 1965: no.3]
File:Sword santon.jpg 100x150px	England, Norfolk, Santon Downham Current Location- Total length- 79.5cm Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35][BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.12,13] [RICHARDS 2004:p.191]British Museum
	England, Suffolk, Kersey Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WILSON 1965: no.5] Comments-
	England, Oxfordshire, Abingdon Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [THOMPSON 2004:p.112][WILSON 1965:p52(no.1)] Comments-
	England, Oxfordshire, Wallingford Bridge Current Location- Ashmolean Museum Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35][THOMPSON 2004:p.113] Comments-
	England, London, River Thames, Westminster Current Location- Ashmolean Museum Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35][LAKING 1920:fig.15c] [DAVIDSON 1962:p54] [WILSON 1965:p.52 (no.x)] Comments-
File:Sword windsor.jpg 100x150px	England, London, River Thames, Windsor Current Location- British Museum Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35] Comments-
File:Sword london l.jpg 100x150px	England, London, River Thames (L) Current Location- British Museum Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.35] Comments-
	Unprovenanced Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WILSON 1965: no.13] Comments-

Type VI Danish

Petersen Types L 'variant' 900AD? to 1050AD?

File:Sword camphill.jpg 100x150px	Yorkshire, York, Camphill Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.15] Comments- missing pommel
	Lincs, River Witham, Lincoln Current Location- British Museum Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [PEIRCE 2002:p.77] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.71] [DAVIDSON 1962:p.56] [OAKESHOTT 1960:p.134] [3] Comments- missing pommel
	Norfolk, Mileham Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Bibliography- [WILSON 1965: no.7] Comments-
	London, River Thames, Staines Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.37] Comments-
	London, River Thames, Shifford Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [THOMPSON 2004:p.114] [DAVIDSON 1962:p.56] Comments-
	London, River Thames, Brentford Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.37] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78] [WILSON 1965:p52(no.3)] Comments-
File:Sword temple.jpg 100x150px	London, River Thames, off the Temple Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78,80] [DAVIDSON 1962:p.56] Comments-
	London, River Thames, Kings Reach Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type L Bibliography- [PEIRCE 2002:p.80] Comments-
	London, River Thames, Vauxhall, Wandsworth Reach Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Bibliography- [LAKING 1920:fig.15d] [WHEELER 1927:p.37] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78] [WILSON 1965:p.52 (no.20)] Comments- Wilson quotes Laking fig.15d as being from Vauxhall. The tip of the sword is from another find from Putney Reach.

Type VII

Petersen Types U, V & X (early style) 850AD to 1000AD?

Petersen Type U, V

	Isle of Man, Ballateare Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type V Bibliography- [BERSU and WILSON 1966:p.52][4] Comments- found with remains of scabbard
File:Sword nene.jpg 100x150px	Cambs, River Nene Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Bibliography- [DAVIDSON 1962:p56] Comments-
	Herts, River Lea, Hertford Current Location- Stolen from Hertford Museum Blade- Hilt- Bibliography- [ADAMS 1974:p.155-158] Comments-
	Herts, River Lea, Edmonton Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type U Bibliography- [PEIRCE 2002:p.110] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.60] [WILSON 1965:p52(no.6)] Comments-

Petersen Type X

File:Sword workington.jpg 100x150px	Cumbria, Workington, Lake District Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type W or X Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.21-22] Comments-
	Isle of Man, Knoc-y-doonee Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type X Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.23] Comments-
File:Sword yorkX1.jpg 100x150px	York Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type X Bibliography- [ROESDAHL 1981:p.65 D15] YM 551.45.48 [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.93] Comments-
	York Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type X Bibliography- [ROESDAHL 1981:p.65 D15] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.93] Comments-
File:Sword nottinghamX.jpg 100x150px	Notts, Nottingham Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type X Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.15-16] Referred to in [ROESDAHL 1981:p.65 D15] [RICHARDS 2004:p.191]
File:Sword farndon church.jpg 100x150px	Notts, Farndon Church, Newark Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Petersen type X Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.71] Comments-

Type VIII

Brazil Nut 950AD to 1300AD?

File:Sword ouse.jpg 100x150px

Cambridgeshire, River Great Ouse Current Location- Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Find type- River find. 950-1000AD Total length- Blade- 77.5cm (30½"). Engraved on one side with ‘CONSTAININUS’ and on the other with ‘+INOMINEDOMINI’ Hilt- Scabbard- Bibliography- [OAKESHOTT 1991:p.35]

Type IX

1000AD to 1300AD?
No known swords from Britain

Type X

1050AD to 1300AD?

England, Lancashire, Claughton Hall Current Location- Now missing Type- Grave find (Possible cremation) Find Date- 1822 Total Length- ? Blade- ? Hilt- ? Scabbard- None Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.18] [EDWARDS 1992:p.46] [EDWARDS 1998:p.15-16] JONES, Michael. The Archaeological Journal. Volume 6. 1849. p.74-75 EDWARDS, B.J.N. The Claughton Viking Burial. Historic Society of Lancashire. 1969 p.109-116 Comments- Found in a wooden box. 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

File:Sword eigg.jpg 100x150px	Scotland, Eigg Current Location- National Scotland of Scotland Blade- Hilt- Petersen type D, length 150mm Bibliography- [GRIEG 1940:p.64-66] Comments-
	Cawood Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Bibliography- www.historyofyork.org.uk www.vikingrune.com Comments-
File:Sword canwick.jpg 100x150px	Lincolnshire, Canwick Common, Lincoln Current Location- British Museum Type- Find Date- Unknown Total Length- (Complete) Blade- Illegible script of silver inlay Hilt- Guard of Petersen type Q but pommel different. Scabbard- none Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.99]
File:Sword raven.jpg 100x150px	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
	London, Battersea Current Location- Blade- Hilt- Tea Cosy pommel Bibliography- [DAVIDSON 1962:p.57] [WILSON 1965:p32-33 no.1] Comments-

Swords that cannot be classified

Swords that are too decayed to identify

No Picture	Scotland, Sandy Current Location- National Museum of Scotland. Type- Find Date- Total Length- Blade- Double edged. Hilt- Part of guard is preserved. The pommel and upper guard are missing. May have been the same as Petersen fig.87 but not enough survives to possitivly classify the sword. Scabbard- none Bibliography- [GRIEG 1940:p.88]
No Picture	Isle of Man, Old Kirk Braddan Current Location- Manx Museum Type- Find Date- Total Length- fragment Blade- only the upper part survives Hilt- missing Scabbard- none Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.23]
No Picture	England, Cumbria, Aspatria Current Location- Lost Type- Find Date- 1789AD Total Length- Blade- Hilt- Pommel missing. Probably a Wheeler type I or II. Scabbard- none Bibliography- [EDWARDS 1992:p.43-44]

Swords still awaiting classification

Swords so far unidentified by the authors

No Picture	Lancs, Witherslack Current Location- Lost Type- Possible grave find Find Date- 1902-03 Total Length: 80cm Blade- bent Hilt- 8cm Scabbard- description of the find suggests that it was found in its scabbard Bibliography- [EDWARDS 1998:p.21] Comments-
No Picture	England, Cumbria, Witherslack Current Location- Kendal Museum Type- Possible grave find Find Date- C19th Total Length- Blade- Hilt- Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.74] [EDWARDS 1998:p.22] Comments-
No Picture	England, Lancashire, Eaglesfield Current Location- University of Newcastle, Museum of Antiquities Type- Possible grave find Find Date- Total Length- Blade- Hilt- Scabbard Bibliography- [EDWARDS 1992:p.28] Comments-
No Picture	England, Nottinghamshire, Nottingham Current Location- Type- Find Date- Total Length- Blade- None Hilt- Only a pommel Scabbard- Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.15] Comments-
No Picture	England, London, River Thames Current Location- Tullie House Museum, Carlisle Type- Find Date- Total Length- Blade- Hilt- Scabbard- Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.81] Comments-
No Picture	England, London, River Thames, Vauxhall Current Location- Type- Find Date- Total Length- Blade- Hilt- 3 lobed pommel Scabbard- Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.81] Comments-
No Picture	England, London, River Thames, Vauxhall Current Location- Unknown Type- Find Date- Total Length- Blade- Hilt- Scabbard- Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.53] Comments- Wheeler only mentions ‘Information from Mr G. F. Lawrence’

See Also

Swords

References

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