== Swords that cannot be classified ==
''Swords that are too decayed to identify''
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|- valign="top" id="=Scotland, Orkney, Sandy==={||- valign="top"|width="100pt135pt"|No Picture|width="600pt"|'''Scotland, Orkney, Sandy'''
:Current Location- National Museum of Scotland.
:Type-
: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::*{{ListRef|Grieg 1940|p.88] }}|}
|- valign="top" id="=Scotland, North Ayrshire, Lamlash, Mill Hill==={||- valign="top"|width="135pt"| See Below|'''Scotland, North Ayrshire, Lamlash, Mill Hill'''
:Current Location- Scottish national Museum
:Type- Grave find
:Hilt- Small (29mm) piece of guard survives. Part of wooden grip survives.
:Scabbard-
:Bibliography- [BALFOUR and SCOTT 1910:p.223,224] [GRIEG 1940:p.28]:Comments- Considered by Balfour and Scott to be a possible Seax and described as probably having a hand grip log enough for 2 hands. Grieg describes this find as being no later than the mid C8th and hense hence possibly the oldest Viking burial in Scotland.:Bibliography- ::*{{ListRef|Balfour & Scott 1910|p.223,224}}::*{{ListRef|Grieg 1940|p.28}}|}<gallery heights="80px" mode="Packed">sword_mill_hill.jpg</gallery>
[[File:sword_mill_hill.jpg]]===Isle of Man, Old Kirk Braddan==={||- valign="top" id|width="Isle of Man, Old Kirk Braddan135pt"|No Picture|'''Isle of Man, Old Kirk Braddan'''
:Current Location- Manx Museum
:Type-
:Hilt- missing, no guard or pommel
:Scabbard- none
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: :*{{ListRef|Bjorn & Shetelig 1940|p.23] }}|}
|- valign="top" id="=England, Berkshire, Drayton==={||- valign="top"|width="100pt135pt"|[[File:sword_drayton.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Drayton ]]|'''England, Berkshire, Drayton''':Current Location- Ashmolean Museum : 1966.1158
:Type- by ploughing
:Find Date- 1966
:Hilt- Pommel missing. Crossguard similar to the Windsor sword
:Scabbard- None
:Bibliography- [HINTON 1974::*{{ListRef|Hinton 1974|p.17 no.9] }}|}
|- valign="top" id="=England, Berkshire, River Thames, Windsor==={||- valign="top"|width="100pt135pt"|[[File:sword_winsor.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Windsor ]]|'''England, Berkshire, River Thames, Windsor''':Current Location- British Museum : 1929,206.1
:Type- River find
:Find Date- 1929
:Total Length-
:Blade- pattern-welded blade
:Hilt- : unknown Unknown classification. long down-curved guard, stub of tang with copper alloy ribbed loop around it, pommel missing
:Scabbard-
:Bibliography- [WILSON 1965::*{{ListRef|Wilson 1965|p.44 no.11 (no.33)] }}::*[http://www.britishmuseum.org/system_pages/beta_collection_introduction/beta_collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=90077&partId=1&searchText=viking%20sword&numpages=427&page=1 www.britishmuseum.org]|}
|- valign="top" id="=England, London, River Thames, Vauxhall (-)"==={|No Picture|- valign="top" |width="600pt135pt"|'''England, London, River Thames, Vauxhall (-)'''No Picture|
:Current Location- Unknown
:Type-
:Hilt-
:Scabbard-
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.53]
:Comments- Wheeler only mentions ‘Information from Mr G. F. Lawrence’
:Bibliography- ::*{{ListRef|Wheeler 1927|p.53}}
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