{{Sword Indexes}}
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== Swords that cannot be classified ==
''Swords that are too decayed to identify''
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|- valign="top" id="Scotland, Orkney, Sandy"
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|width="600pt"|'''Scotland, Orkney, 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]
|- valign="top" id="Scotland, North Ayrshire, Lamlash, Mill Hill"
|See Below
|'''Scotland, North Ayrshire, Lamlash, Mill Hill'''
:Current Location- Scottish national Museum
:Type- Grave find
:Find Date- 1896
:Total Length-
:Blade- Single edged blade. Widest surviving fragment 60mm
: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 possibly the oldest Viking burial in Scotland.
[[File:sword_mill_hill.jpg]]
|- valign="top" id="Isle of Man, Old Kirk Braddan"
|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, no guard or pommel
:Scabbard- none
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: p.23]
|- valign="top" id="England, Berkshire, Drayton"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_drayton.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Drayton ]]
|'''England, Berkshire, Drayton'''
:Current Location- Ashmolean Museum 1966.1158
:Type- by ploughing
:Find Date- 1966
:Total Length- 59.5cm (incomplete)
:Blade- pattern-welded blade
:Hilt- Pommel missing. Crossguard similar to the Windsor sword
:Scabbard- None
:Bibliography- [HINTON 1974:p.17 no.9]
|- valign="top" id="England, Berkshire, River Thames, Windsor"
|width="100pt"|[[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 classification. long down-curved guard, stub of tang with copper alloy ribbed loop around it, pommel missing
:Scabbard-
:Bibliography- [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
|width="600pt"|'''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’
|}
== Swords still awaiting classification==
''Swords so far unidentified by the authors''