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== Unclassified swords - too decayed ==
''Swords that are too decayed to identify''
== Swords still awaiting classification=Scotland, Orkney, Rousay: Grave 34b===''Swords so far unidentified by {{Cat|:Current Location- National Museum of Scotland:Find Type- Grave:Find Date- :Total length-:Blade- :Hilt- Type H (Żabiński 2007).:Scabbard- :Comments- :Bibliography-:*{{ListRef|Żabiński 2007|no.10}}|i1=Zabinski-Sword Rousay 10.JPG}} ===Isle of Man, Braddan: Old Kirk Braddan==={{Cat|:Current Location- Manx Museum 1954-0458:Find Type- Burial in churchyard:Find Date- 1867:Total Length- fragment:Blade- only the authors'' upper part survives:Hilt- missing, no guard or pommel:Scabbard- none:Bibliography- :*{{ListRef|Bjorn & Shetelig 1940|p.23}}:*{{ListRef|Redmond 2007|Appx.5 no.108 p.89}}:*{{ListWeb||[[https://www.imuseum.im/search/place_record/view/40?id=mnh-site-197441 iMuseum.im]]}}}} ==Unclassified swords - Lost==
|- valign="top" id="England=Scotland, CumbriaShetland, West Seaton"|widthDunrossness: Sumburgh Airport ==="100pt"|No Picture{{Cat|width="600pt"|'''England, Cumbria, West Seaton'''
:Current Location- Lost
:Find Type- Possible grave find:Find Date- 1902-03:Total Length: 80cmlength-:Blade- bent :Hilt- 8cmUnknown (Żabiński 2007).:Scabbard- description of the find suggests that it was found in its scabbard:Bibliography- [EDWARDS 1998:p.21]
:Comments-
:Bibliography-
:*{{ListRef|Żabiński 2007|no.1}}
}}
===Scotland, Outer Hebrides, Harris: St Kilda==={{Cat|:Current Location- valignLost:Find Type- :Find Date- :Total length-:Blade- :Hilt- Unknown (Żabiński 2007).:Scabbard - :Comments- :Bibliography-:*{{ListRef|Żabiński 2007|no.13}}}} ===Scotland, Outer Hebrides, South Uist: Bebencula==={{Cat|:Current Location- Lost:Find Type- :Find Date- :Total length-:Blade- :Hilt- Unknown (Żabiński 2007).:Scabbard - :Comments- :Bibliography-:*{{ListRef|Żabiński 2007|no.14}}}} ===Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Tiree: Cornaigbeg ==={{Cat|:Current Location- Lost:Find Type- :Find Date- :Total length-:Blade- :Hilt- Unknown (Żabiński 2007).:Scabbard - :Comments- :Bibliography-:*{{ListRef|Żabiński 2007|no.19}}}} ===Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Colonsay: Traigh Nam Barck ==={{Cat|:Current Location- Lost:Find Type- :Find Date- :Total length-:Blade- :Hilt- Unknown (Żabiński 2007).:Scabbard - :Comments- :Bibliography-:*{{ListRef|Żabiński 2007|no.22}}}} ===Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Gigha: ==={{Cat|:Current Location- Lost:Find Type- :Find Date- :Total length-:Blade- :Hilt- Unknown (Żabiński 2007).:Scabbard - :Comments- :Bibliography-:*{{ListRef|Żabiński 2007|no.26}}}} ===Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Bute: Drumachlay ==={{Cat|:Current Location- Lost:Find Type- :Find Date- :Total length-:Blade- :Hilt- Unknown (Żabiński 2007).:Scabbard - :Comments- :Bibliography-:*{{ListRef|Żabiński 2007|no.27}}}} =="top" id="England, Cumbria, Witherslack"Penrith ==={{Cat|:Current Location- Lost:Find Type- :Find Date- early C17th:Total length-:Blade- :Hilt- Unknown :Scabbard - :Comments- found in the location of 2 crosses and 4 hogbacks. :Bibliography-:*{{ListRef|Edwards 1998|p.95-96}}:*{{ListRef|Redmond 2007|p.106, Appx.5 No Picture.24}}}} ===[[:Category:England, Lancashire: Rampside|widthEngland, Lancashire: Rampside 1854]]="600pt"=={{Cat|:Type- Grave find (in a Christian Churchyard). 850-900AD.:Find Date- 1854 :Total Length- 12":Blade- :Hilt- unknown:Scabbard- none:Comments- '''England"About the year 1854-5, CumbriaWilliam Jackson found in digging a grave an iron dagger or sword, Witherslack'much corroded. It was about twelve inches long and about one inch or so wide, with a straight guard about three inches long, and a " tongue " (tang) or handle, but no pommel or knob.<br>His grandson, my informant, was not present when this sword was found, but saw it afterwards. Its present whereabouts is unknown."''(Gaythorpe 1910 p.300):Bibliography-:*{{ListRef|Gaythorpe 1910}}:*{{ListRef|Redmond 2007|Appx.5 Ref.29}}|Seen=|Museum= LOST|Accession= |i1= |i2=}} ===[[:Category:England, North Yorkshire: Kildale|England, North Yorkshire: Kildale 1]]==={{Cat|:Current Location- Kendal MuseumLost, stolen.:Find Type- grave find:Find Date- 1867:Total Length-:Blade- Broken:Hilt- Unknown:Scabbard- :Comments- One of 4 swords marked here on Richards map. Redmond records this as 1st inhumation 1868. Found with Knife, copper-ally tweezers, Scales, lead weight, a copper-alloy plate and a box with a sliding lid.:Bibliography- :*{{ListRef|Richards 2004|p.191}}:*{{ListRef|Redmond 2007|p.110, XLIII-XLIV}}}} ===[[:Category:England, North Yorkshire: Kildale|England, North Yorkshire: Kildale 2]]==={{Cat|:Current Location- Lost, stolen.:Find Type- Possible grave find:Find Date- C19th1867
:Total Length-
:Blade-
:Hilt-
:Scabbard-
:Comments- One of 4 swords marked here on Richards map. Redmond records this as 2nd inhumation 1868. Found with a spear.:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:*{{ListRef|Richards 2004|p.74] [EDWARDS 1998191}}:*{{ListRef|Redmond 2007|p.22] :Comments110, XLIII- XLIV}}}}
|- valign="top" id="=[[:Category:England, Lancashire, Eaglesfield"North Yorkshire: Kildale|No Picture|width="600pt"|'''England, Lancashire, Eaglesfield'''North Yorkshire: Kildale 3]]==={{Cat|:Current Location- University of NewcastleLost, Museum of Antiquitiesstolen.:Find Type- Possible grave find:Find Date- 18141867
:Total Length-
:Blade-
:Hilt-
:Scabbard- :Comments- One of 4 swords marked here on Richards map. Redmond records this as 3rd inhumation 1868. Found with a spear.:Bibliography- [EDWARDS 1992:*{{ListRef|Richards 2004|p.28] [RICHARDS 2004191}}:*{{ListRef|Redmond 2007|p.191110, 194] [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/archXLIII-319-1/dissemination/pdf/Allerdale/Assessment/Cockermouth_and_Papcastle_assessment_report.pdf ahds.ac.uk]XLIV}}:Comments- Cowen (1948) reports that that a fragmentary sword was found in 1852 with a skeleton in Eaglesfield outside Cockermouth, the original label accompanying the sword fragment, in the Black gate Museum in Newcastle, read ‘part of a sword found by a skeleton at Egglesfield near Cockermouth’. The mention of the skeleton suggests that the sword came from a grave site.Cowen (1948) cites Dickinson, writing in 1877, who mentions that at Brigham six skeletons and a sword were found. This could be evidence of a ‘Viking’ burial site and therefore possibly suggest Anglo Scandinavian settlement in the area}}
|- valign="top" id="=England, YorkshireLondon: River Thames, Kildale"Vauxhall (-)==={{Cat|No Picture:Current Location- Unknown:Find Type-:Find Date-:Total Length-:Blade- :Hilt-:Scabbard- :Comments- Wheeler only mentions ‘Information from Mr G. F. Lawrence’:Bibliography- :*{{ListRef|width="600pt"Wheeler 1927|p.53}}}} == Swords still awaiting classification==''Swords so far unidentified by the authors'England' ===Scotland, YorkshireOrkney, Kildale'''Westray: Pierowall Links Grave 10==={{Cat|
:Current Location-
:Find Type- grave Grave find
:Find Date-
:Total Length-
:Hilt-
:Scabbard-
:BibliographyComments- [RICHARDS 2004:p.191]:CommentsBibliography- The are 4 swords marked here on Richards map:*{{ListRef|Żabiński 2007|no.3}}}}
|- valign="top" id="England=Scotland, Lancashire, Heysham"Perth: Watergate==={{Cat|No Picture|width="600pt"|'''England, Lancashire, Heysham''':Current Location- Perth Museum:Find Type- grave Stray find?
:Find Date-
:Total Length-
:Hilt-
:Scabbard-
:Bibliography- [RICHARDS 2004:p.191]
:Comments-
:Bibliography-
:*{{ListRef|Żabiński 2007|no.34}}
}}
|- valign="top" id="=Isle of Of Man, Jurby: Jurby, St. PatrickChurchyard (2)===''see also Isle Of Man, Ballabrooie"Jurby: Jurby, St. Patrick Churchyard (1)''<br>{{Cat|No Picture|width=:Current Location- ?LOST?:Find Type- :Find Date- ?:Total Length-:Blade- :Hilt- :Scabbard-:Comments- "600ptA second sword has also been found in the graveyard, but its fate is not clear.":Bibliography- :*{{ListWeb|'''|[[https://www.imuseum.im/search/place_record/view/40?id=mnh-site-196593 iMuseum.im]]}}}} ===Isle of Man, Patrick, Ballabrooie'''Malew: Malew Parish Churchyard==={{Cat|:Current Location- LOST?:Find Type- Possible grave find
:Find Date-
:Total Length-
:Hilt-
:Scabbard-
:Comments- 2 swords:Bibliography- [WILSON 2008:*{{ListRef|Bjorn & Shetelig 1940|p.51, 55]25}}:Comments- *{{ListRef|Redmond 2007|Appx.5 no.109 p.89}}}}
|- valign="top" id="Isle of Man=England, Tynwald Hill"Cumbria: Sayle Bottom, Great Asby==={{Cat|No Picture|width="600pt"|'''Isle of Man, Tynwald Hill''':Current Location- ?:Find Type- :Find Date- 19371760-1770?
:Total Length-
:Blade-
:Hilt-
:Scabbard-
:Comments- ''"A tumulus, in the neighbourhood of Garthorne-hall, was opened some forty years since, and several human bones, and a large sword found in it."'' (The Monthly Magazine 1802):Bibliography- :*{{ListRef|Redmond 2007|Appx.5 no.84}}:*{{ListWeb||[WILSON 2008[https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=DDSx3kVT1RMC The Monthly Magazine Vol. XIII part 1 1802, p.51115]]}}:Comments- }}
|- valign="top" id="Isle of Man=England, BallachrinkCumbria: Sandford Moor, Jurby"Morland===|No Picture|width="600pt"|'''Isle of ManSandford Moor, Ballachrink, Jurby'Westmoreland''<br>{{Cat|:Current Location- ?:Find Type- :Find Date- 18811766
:Total Length-
:Blade-
:Hilt-
:Scabbard-
:BibliographyComments- [BJORN ''"On one side of it, but somewhat lower. lay a broad two-edged sword, broken in two, the whole blade measuring in length better than two feet, and SHETELIG 1940two inches and an half broad; the head curiously wrought. On the other side lay the head of a spear, and some other instruments which Mr. Preston could not tell what to make of. All the instruments were nearly destroyed by rust"'' (Archaeologica Vol.III 1775):pBibliography- :*{{ListRef|Redmond 2007|Appx.25] 5 no.85}}:*{{ListWeb||[[WILSON 2008https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101076451390;view=1up;seq=339 "Account of opening one of the largest Barrows on Sandford Moor, Westmoreland, in a Letter from Mr. William Preston, dated Warcop Hall, Sept. 5, 1766, to Bishop Lyttelton", Archaeologica Vol.III 1775, p.27273]]}}:Comments- part of blade and hilt}}
|- valign="top" id="Isle of Man=England, Malew Parish Churchyard"Lancashire: Meols==={{Cat|No Picture|width="600pt"|'''Isle of Man, Malew Parish Churchyard'''
:Current Location-
:Find Type-
:Find Date-
:Total Length-
:Hilt-
:Scabbard-
:Comments- :Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p*{{ListRef|Redmond 2007|Appx.25] 5 no.88}}}} ===England, Norfolk: River Little Ouse, Hockwold cum Wilton==={{Cat|:Current Location- Unknown: NHER 15748:Find Type- :Find Date- 1978:Total Length-:Blade- In two parts. Bent in two with a hole drilled at the bend.:Hilt- :Scabbard- :Comments- 2 swordsDescribed as a complete late Saxon sword. It could be [[Swords found in Britain#England, Norfolk: (L)|England, Norfolk: (L)]]:Bibliography- :*[[http://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF15748 Norfolk Heritage Explorer]]}}
|- valign="top" id="=England, Cambridgeshire, : King's Dyke"==={{Cat|No Picture|width="600pt"|'''England, Cambridgeshire, King's Dyke'''
:Current Location- Victoria County History, Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, I, 326.
:Find Type-
:Find Date-
:Total Length-
:Hilt-
:Scabbard-
:Bibliography- [WILSON 1965:p.52 (no.9)]
:Comments- found in River Nene on junction with King's Dyke.
:Bibliography-
:*{{ListRef|Wilson 1965|p.52 (no.9)}}
}}
|- valign="top" id="=England, Cambridgeshire, : River Cam, Clayhithe"==={{Cat|No Picture|width="600pt"|'''England, Cambridgeshire, River Cam, Clayhithe'''
:Current Location-
:Find Type-
:Find Date-
:Total Length-
:Hilt-
:Scabbard-
:Bibliography- [WILSON 1965:p.52(no.4)
:Comments-
:Bibliography-
:*{{ListRef|Wilson 1965|p.52 (no.4)}}
:*Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society Vol.33. (1933) p.167 pl.viii,b
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|i1=Proc.C.A.S. Vol.33 Sword-Clayhithe.JPG
}}
|- valign="top" id="=England, Berkshire: Shepperton, Reading"Cowey Stakes==={{Cat|No Picture|width="600pt"|'''England, Berkshire, Reading'''
:Current Location-
:Find Type-
:Find Date-
:Total Length-
:Blade- destroyed during excavation:Hilt- Pommel and guard of gilt and silver
:Scabbard-
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.11,12]
:Comments-
:Bibliography-
:*{{ListRef|Wilson 1965|p.52 List of river finds no.5}}
:*{{ListWeb||https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/collections/getrecord/SHHER_2046 www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk]]}}
}}
|- valign="top" id="England, London, Cowey Stakes"|No Picture|width="600pt"|'''England, Berkshire, : Reading''', Old Windsor==={{Cat|:Current Location- Reading Museum: REDMG: 1997.35.62:Find Type- Excavation:Find Date- 1953-1958:Total Length-n/a:Blade- none:Hilt- Only cross-guard survives. Swedish in style (Reading Museum 2015):Scabbard- none:Comments- From the excavations of the Saxon palace at Old Windsor by Brian Hope-Taylor, 1953 to 1958.:Bibliography- :*[WILSON 1965[http:p52(no//collections.5readingmuseum.org.uk/index.asp?page=record&mwsquery=%20{collection}={archaeology}%20AND%20({date}=*{11th%20century})&filename=REDMG&hitsStart=1 readingmuseum.org.uk]] :Comments|i1=Reading- near Sheppertonweb Sword Old Windsor.jpg}}
{{Seen|- valignMuseum of London}}=="top" id="England, London, : Sherborne Lane"|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_sherborne.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Sherborne ]]={{Cat|width="600pt"|'''England, London, Sherborne Lane''':Current Location- London Museumof London::Find Type-
:Find Date-
:Total Length- n/a
:Hilt- Only the Crossguard remains.
:Scabbard- n/a
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1935:p.181 fig.43] [WILSON 1964:p.108] [DAVIDSON 1962:Pl.XI no.73] [http://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/Online/object.aspx?objectID=object-37128&start=228&rows=1 London Museum]
:Comments-
:Bibliography-
:*{{ListRef|Wheeler 1935|p.181 fig.43}}
:*{{ListRef|Wilson 1964|p.108}}
:*{{ListRef|Davidson 1962|Pl.XI no.73}}
:*[[http://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/Online/object.aspx?objectID=object-37128&start=228&rows=1 London Museum]]
|i1=sword_sherborne.jpg
}}
|- valign="top" id="=England, London"|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_London.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=London ]]=={{Cat|width="600pt"|'''England, London''':Current Location- Museum of London Museum : 93.79/1:Find Type-
:Find Date-
:Total Length- n/a
:Hilt- Only the Crossguard remains. 90x22mm. Inlaid with silver and copper wire.
:Scabbard- n/a
:Bibliography- [http://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/Online/object.aspx?objectID=object-38790&start=251&rows=1 London Museum]
:Comments-
:Bibliography-
:*[[http://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/Online/object.aspx?objectID=object-38790&start=251&rows=1 London Museum]]
|i1=sword_London.jpg
}}
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|- valign="top" id="=England, London, : Westminster Palace"|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_westminster.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Westminster]]={{Cat|width="600pt"|'''England, London, Westminster Palace'''
:Current Location-
:Find Type-
:Find Date-
:Total Length-
:Hilt-
:Scabbard-
:Bibliography- [DAVIDSON 1962:Pl.XI no.76]
:Comments-
:Bibliography-
:*{{ListRef|Davidson 1962|Pl.XI no.76}}
|i1=sword_westminster_palace.jpg
}}
|} ==See Also=England, Devon: Exeter=[[Swords]]<br> ==References=={{Cat|<nocite>:Current Location- British Museum: 1875,0617.15BJORN1940:Find Type- DAVIDSON1962:Find Date- 1833EDWARDS1992:Total Length- N/AEDWARDS1998:Blade- N/ARICHARDS2004:Hilt- Only the pommel guard survives. Inscription: EOFRI ME F (BM Website 2015)WILSON1964WILSON1965WILSON2008<:Scabbard- N/nocite>A<biblio force=false>#[[Template:Bib]]</biblio>Comments-<HarvardReferences />:Bibliography- :*{{ListRef|Davidson 1962|Pl.XIII no.84}} [[Category:Found in Britain]]*{{ListRef|Wilson 1964|p.130-131 no.17 pl.xvii}} :*[[Categoryhttp:Weapons//www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=96939&partId=1 www.BritishMuseum.org]]|i1=sword_exeter.jpg}}