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Swords of Types Unknown found in Britain

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/* Scotland, North Ayrshire, Lamlash, Mill Hill */
== Swords that cannot be classified ==
''Swords that are too decayed to identify''
 
===Scotland, North Ayrshire, Lamlash, Mill Hill===
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See Below
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: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. (Grieg 1940). Type C/H (Żabiński 2007)
:Scabbard-
:Comments- Considered by Balfour and Scot 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 hence possibly the oldest Viking burial in Scotland.
:Bibliography-
::*{{ListRef|Balfour & Scot 1910 |p.223,224}}
::*{{ListRef|Grieg 1940|p.28}}
::*{{ListRef|Żabiński 2007|no.29}}
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===Isle of Man, Old Kirk Braddan===