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In use from the prehistoric iron age in central Europe to as late as the C10th in Norway. <br>
{|- valign="top" id="Strathspey"|width="100pt"| [[File:sword_elginshire.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Strathspey]]|width="600pt"| '''Scotland, Elginshire, 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- [GRIEG 1940:p.159]
|- valign="top" id="Kirkcudbrightshire"
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.26]
|- valign="top" id="Repton"
|[[File:sword_repton.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Repton]]
|'''Derbyshire, Repton'''
:Current Location- Derby Museum
:Type- Grave find c.873AD
:Scabbard- made from two lengths of wood, lined with hairy skin. Outside covered in leather.
:Bibliography- [BIDDLE and KJBLBYE-BIDDLE (1992):p.49]
|- valign="top" id="Waterloo"
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.36] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.78]
|} === Similar Types P, Y & AE === {| |- valign="top" id="Strathspey"|width="100pt"| [[File:sword_elginshire.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=Strathspey]]|width="600pt"| '''Scotland, Elginshire, 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- [GRIEG 1940:p.159] |- valign="top" id="Kirk"|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] |- valign="top" id="Tilehurst"|No Picture|'''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] |- valign="top" id="CanwichCanwick"|[[File:near_canwich.jpg|thumb|x150px|left|alt=CanwichCanwick]]|'''Lincolnshire, Canwich Canwick Common, Lincoln'''
:Current Location- British Museum
:Type-
:Scabbard- none
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.99]
|}
:Comments- Oakeshott suggests that this blade may have belonged to a type II sword.
|}
== Type III Danish ==
