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== Type I ==
''Petersen types M & Q. Rygh 489 & 493.'' <br>
850AD? to 1025AD <br>
In use from the prehistoric iron age in central Europe to as late as the C10th in Norway. <br>
{|
|- valign="top" id="Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, St. Cuthbert’s Churchyard"
|width="100pt"| [[File:sword_kirkcudbrightshire.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Kirkcudbrightshire]]
|width="600pt"| '''Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, St. Cuthbert’s Churchyard'''
:Current Location- Kirkcudbrightshire Museum no. 2050
:Type- Grave find – undated
:Find Date- Unknown
:Total Length- 80cm (broken)
:Blade- Double edged. Length 70cm (broken so probably longer), width 6cm.
:Hilt- Like R.489. Portions of wooden handle.
:Scabbard- Parts of wood remain.
:Bibliography- [GRIEG 1940:p.13]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, Cumbria, Rampside Churchyard"
|No Picture
|'''England, Cumbria, Rampside Churchyard'''
:Current Location- Municipal Museum, Barrow-in-Furness BAWMS.09000
:Type- Grave find (in a Christian Churchyard). 850-900AD.
:Find Date- 1909
:Total Length- ?
:Blade- 40cm survives, single-edged.
:Hilt- Petersen type M, Wheeler type I
:Scabbard- fragments of iron imregnated wood were found
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.18] [EDWARDS 1998:p.21] [RICHARDS 2004:p.191]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, Cumbria, Ormside, Appleby-in-Westmoreland"
|No Picture
|'''England, Cumbria, Ormside, Appleby-in-Westmoreland'''
:Current Location- Tullie House Museum
:Type- Grave find. 850-900AD.
:Find Date- before 1898
:Total Length- 35.5” (Complete?)
:Blade- Length 31” (79cm)
:Hilt- Petersen type M, Wheeler type I
:Scabbard- none
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.18] [RICHARDS 2004:p.191]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, Yorkshire, York, Clifford Street"
|width="100pt"| [[File:sword_york_clifford.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=York Clifford Street]]
|'''England, Yorkshire, York, Clifford Street'''
:Current Location- Yorkshire Museum
:Type- Unknown
:Find Date- Unknown
:Total Length- N/A
:Blade- Missing
:Hilt- Petersen type M?. Only the undecorated guard of whale bone survives.
:Scabbard- none
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.96] [ROESDAHL 1981:p.114 YAB30] [MacGREGOR 1985:p.167] [ROGERS 1993:p.1431]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="Isle of Man, Balladoyne Churchyard, St. Johns"
|width="100pt"| [[File:IOM_sword_balladoyne.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Balladoyne]]
|'''Isle of Man, Balladoyne Churchyard, St. Johns'''
:Current Location- Manx Museum
:Type- Grave find (in a Christian Churchyard). Undated.
:Find Date- Unknown
:Total Length- 32” (possible about 4” missing)
:Blade- no information
:Hilt- Petersen type M, Wheeler type I. No ornament. Part of the wooden grip remains.
:Scabbard- None
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.26]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, Derbyshire, Repton (M)"
|[[File:sword_repton.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Repton]]
|'''England, Derbyshire, Repton (M)'''
:Current Location- Derby Museum
:Type- Grave find c.873AD
:Find Date- 1986?
:Total Length- 89.7cm
:Blade- length 77.3cm, width 6.2cm.
:Hilt- Petersen type M. grip constructed of strips covered in tabby weave textile.
:Scabbard- made from two lengths of wood, lined with hairy skin. Outside covered in leather.
:Bibliography- [BIDDLE and KJBLBYE-BIDDLE 1992:p.49]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, Berkshire, Reading"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_reading.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Reading ]]
|width="600pt"|'''England, Berkshire, Reading'''
:Current Location-
:Find Date-
:Total Length-
:Blade-
:Hilt- Pommel missing. Hilt and guard decorated in gripping beasts.
:Scabbard-
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.11] [EAST nd:p.2]
:Comments- Rediscovered after 150 years after being considered lost. Made between c.750AD but probably buried just after 800AD.
|- valign="top" id="England, London, River Thames, Waterloo Bridge"
|width="100pt"| [[File:sword_waterloo.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Waterloo]]
|width="600pt"| '''England, London, River Thames, Waterloo Bridge'''
:Current Location- London Museum A 3670. Was previously in the Laking collection.
:Type- River find, C9th
:Find Date- Unknown
:Total Length- (part of blade missing)
:Blade- no information
:Hilt- Classed by Wheeler as type I, by Bjorn as Type H? Both guards are striped with brass inlay. Bjorn considers the pommel to be missing?
:Scabbard- none
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.36] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78] [WILSON 1965:p.52 (no.21)]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, London River Thames, ‘near London’"
|[[File:near_london.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Near London]]
|'''England, London River Thames, ‘near London’'''
:Current Location- London Museum A 17923
:Type- River find, Not before 900AD.
:Find Date- Unknown
:Total Length- (part of blade missing)
:Blade- no information
:Hilt- Petersen type M, Wheeler type I. Part of a wooden handle survives, covered in a course linen.
:Scabbard- none
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.36] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78] [WILSON 1965:p.52 (no.22)]
:Comments-
|}
=== Related Types P, Y & AE ===
[[File:sword_type_p.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]<br>
{|
|- valign="top" id="Scotland, Moray, Strathspey"
|width="100pt"| [[File:sword_elginshire.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Strathspey]]
|width="600pt"| '''Scotland, Moray, Strathspey'''
:Current Location- National Museum of Scotland. L.A. 1
:Type- Unknown. Found in an excavation of a railway cutting.
: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.
:Scabbard- None
:Bibliography- [ANDERSON 1872:p.567 no.5] [GRIEG 1940:p.159] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1998:p.105] [http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-190-004-015-C scran.ac.uk]
:Comments- Grieg describes the sword as comming from Elginshire
[[File:sword_elginshire_full.jpg]]
|- valign="top" id="Isle of Man, St John’s Kirk German"
|No Picture
|'''Isle of Man, St John’s Kirk German'''
:Current Location- Manx Museum
:Type- Found in a field near a burial.
:Find Date- Unknown
:Total Length- (fragmentary)
:Blade- no information
:Hilt- Probably Petersen type P. Traces of silver ornament on pommel and guard.
:Scabbard- None
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.25-26]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, Berkshire, Tilehurst station"
|No Picture
|'''England, Berkshire, Tilehurst station'''
: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
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.58]
:Comments-
|}
<br>
== Type I ==
''Petersen types M & Q. Rygh 489 & 493.'' <br>
850AD? to 1025AD <br>
In use from the prehistoric iron age in central Europe to as late as the C10th in Norway. <br>
{|
|- valign="top" id="Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, St. Cuthbert’s Churchyard"
|width="100pt"| [[File:sword_kirkcudbrightshire.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Kirkcudbrightshire]]
|width="600pt"| '''Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, St. Cuthbert’s Churchyard'''
:Current Location- Kirkcudbrightshire Museum no. 2050
:Type- Grave find – undated
:Find Date- Unknown
:Total Length- 80cm (broken)
:Blade- Double edged. Length 70cm (broken so probably longer), width 6cm.
:Hilt- Like R.489. Portions of wooden handle.
:Scabbard- Parts of wood remain.
:Bibliography- [GRIEG 1940:p.13]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, Cumbria, Rampside Churchyard"
|No Picture
|'''England, Cumbria, Rampside Churchyard'''
:Current Location- Municipal Museum, Barrow-in-Furness BAWMS.09000
:Type- Grave find (in a Christian Churchyard). 850-900AD.
:Find Date- 1909
:Total Length- ?
:Blade- 40cm survives, single-edged.
:Hilt- Petersen type M, Wheeler type I
:Scabbard- fragments of iron imregnated wood were found
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.18] [EDWARDS 1998:p.21] [RICHARDS 2004:p.191]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, Cumbria, Ormside, Appleby-in-Westmoreland"
|No Picture
|'''England, Cumbria, Ormside, Appleby-in-Westmoreland'''
:Current Location- Tullie House Museum
:Type- Grave find. 850-900AD.
:Find Date- before 1898
:Total Length- 35.5” (Complete?)
:Blade- Length 31” (79cm)
:Hilt- Petersen type M, Wheeler type I
:Scabbard- none
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.18] [RICHARDS 2004:p.191]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, Yorkshire, York, Clifford Street"
|width="100pt"| [[File:sword_york_clifford.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=York Clifford Street]]
|'''England, Yorkshire, York, Clifford Street'''
:Current Location- Yorkshire Museum
:Type- Unknown
:Find Date- Unknown
:Total Length- N/A
:Blade- Missing
:Hilt- Petersen type M?. Only the undecorated guard of whale bone survives.
:Scabbard- none
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.96] [ROESDAHL 1981:p.114 YAB30] [MacGREGOR 1985:p.167] [ROGERS 1993:p.1431]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="Isle of Man, Balladoyne Churchyard, St. Johns"
|width="100pt"| [[File:IOM_sword_balladoyne.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Balladoyne]]
|'''Isle of Man, Balladoyne Churchyard, St. Johns'''
:Current Location- Manx Museum
:Type- Grave find (in a Christian Churchyard). Undated.
:Find Date- Unknown
:Total Length- 32” (possible about 4” missing)
:Blade- no information
:Hilt- Petersen type M, Wheeler type I. No ornament. Part of the wooden grip remains.
:Scabbard- None
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.26]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, Derbyshire, Repton (M)"
|[[File:sword_repton.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Repton]]
|'''England, Derbyshire, Repton (M)'''
:Current Location- Derby Museum
:Type- Grave find c.873AD
:Find Date- 1986?
:Total Length- 89.7cm
:Blade- length 77.3cm, width 6.2cm.
:Hilt- Petersen type M. grip constructed of strips covered in tabby weave textile.
:Scabbard- made from two lengths of wood, lined with hairy skin. Outside covered in leather.
:Bibliography- [BIDDLE and KJBLBYE-BIDDLE 1992:p.49]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, Berkshire, Reading"
|width="100pt"|[[File:sword_reading.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Reading ]]
|width="600pt"|'''England, Berkshire, Reading'''
:Current Location-
:Find Date-
:Total Length-
:Blade-
:Hilt- Pommel missing. Hilt and guard decorated in gripping beasts.
:Scabbard-
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.11] [EAST nd:p.2]
:Comments- Rediscovered after 150 years after being considered lost. Made between c.750AD but probably buried just after 800AD.
|- valign="top" id="England, London, River Thames, Waterloo Bridge"
|width="100pt"| [[File:sword_waterloo.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Waterloo]]
|width="600pt"| '''England, London, River Thames, Waterloo Bridge'''
:Current Location- London Museum A 3670. Was previously in the Laking collection.
:Type- River find, C9th
:Find Date- Unknown
:Total Length- (part of blade missing)
:Blade- no information
:Hilt- Classed by Wheeler as type I, by Bjorn as Type H? Both guards are striped with brass inlay. Bjorn considers the pommel to be missing?
:Scabbard- none
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.36] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78] [WILSON 1965:p.52 (no.21)]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, London River Thames, ‘near London’"
|[[File:near_london.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Near London]]
|'''England, London River Thames, ‘near London’'''
:Current Location- London Museum A 17923
:Type- River find, Not before 900AD.
:Find Date- Unknown
:Total Length- (part of blade missing)
:Blade- no information
:Hilt- Petersen type M, Wheeler type I. Part of a wooden handle survives, covered in a course linen.
:Scabbard- none
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.36] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78] [WILSON 1965:p.52 (no.22)]
:Comments-
|}
=== Related Types P, Y & AE ===
[[File:sword_type_p.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]<br>
{|
|- valign="top" id="Scotland, Moray, Strathspey"
|width="100pt"| [[File:sword_elginshire.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left|alt=Strathspey]]
|width="600pt"| '''Scotland, Moray, Strathspey'''
:Current Location- National Museum of Scotland. L.A. 1
:Type- Unknown. Found in an excavation of a railway cutting.
: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.
:Scabbard- None
:Bibliography- [ANDERSON 1872:p.567 no.5] [GRIEG 1940:p.159] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1998:p.105] [http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-190-004-015-C scran.ac.uk]
:Comments- Grieg describes the sword as comming from Elginshire
[[File:sword_elginshire_full.jpg]]
|- valign="top" id="Isle of Man, St John’s Kirk German"
|No Picture
|'''Isle of Man, St John’s Kirk German'''
:Current Location- Manx Museum
:Type- Found in a field near a burial.
:Find Date- Unknown
:Total Length- (fragmentary)
:Blade- no information
:Hilt- Probably Petersen type P. Traces of silver ornament on pommel and guard.
:Scabbard- None
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.25-26]
:Comments-
|- valign="top" id="England, Berkshire, Tilehurst station"
|No Picture
|'''England, Berkshire, Tilehurst station'''
: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
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.58]
:Comments-
|}
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