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Swords of Type VIII and IX found in Britain

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== Type VIII ==
''Brazil Nut 950AD to 1300AD? ''
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|- valign="top" id="England, Cambridgeshire, : River Great Ouse"|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_ouseSword Cambridge River Great Ouse.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Ouse ]]
|width="600pt"|'''England, Cambridgeshire, River Great Ouse'''
:Current Location- Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
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== Type IX Petersen Y ==
''1000AD to 1300AD? ''
<brgallery heights=150px>No known swords from BritainSword_type_y.jpg</gallery>
<noinclude>{{Seen|National Museum of Scotland}}==References=Scotland, Moray: Gorton===<nocite>{| OAKESHOTT1991|- valign="top" </nocite><biblio force|width=false>#"135pt"| [[TemplateFile:BibNMS Gorton Sword Hilt.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Strathspey]]<|:Current Location- National Museum of Scotland. H.LA 1:Type- Unknown. Found in an excavation of a railway cutting (Strathspey). c.900-1000: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. (Grieg 1940). Type Y (Żabiński 2007):Scabbard- None:Comments- Grieg describes the sword as coming from Elginshire:Bibliography- ::*{{ListRef|Anderson 1874|p.567 no.5}}::*{{ListRef|Grieg 1940|p.159}}::*{{ListRef|Graham-Campbell & Batey 1998|p.105}}::*{{ListRef|Żabiński 2007|no.35}}::*[http:/biblio/nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-190-004-015-C nms.scran.ac.uk (1)] ::*[http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-190-004-016-C nms.scran.ac.uk (2)]|-| colspan="2"|<gallery heights="80px" mode="Packed">NMS Gorton sword.jpgsword_elginshire.jpgsword_elginshire_full.jpgSword - Gorton hilt (Anderson 1874).JPG<HarvardReferences /gallery>|}<!--end of NMS-->|}
</noinclude>===England, Nottinghamshire: Nottingham (Y)==={||- valign="top" |width="135pt"| [[File:Sword_NottinghamL.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Nottingham]]|:Current Location-:Type-:Find date-1851:Total length-:Blade- :Hilt- Petersen type Y:Scabbard-:Comments- Wheeler identifies this sword as probably being Petersen type L but states that the sword is damaged (Wheeler 1927). Evison has confirmed the sword as a later type Y and not a type L as it appears in the picture (Graham-Campbell 2001) Described as 'resembling knuckles of the hand'. Image from The Archaeological Journal 8 p.425:Bibliography- ::*{{ListRef|Wheeler 1927|p.35}}::*{{ListRef|Bjorn & Shetelig 1940|p.15}}::*{{ListRef|Richards 2004|p.191}}::*{{ListRef|Graham-Campbell 2001|p.106}}|} ===England, Berkshire: Tilehurst station==={||- valign="top" |width="135pt"| No Picture|: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:Comments- :Bibliography- ::*{{ListRef|Bjorn & Shetelig 1940|p.58}}|}