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France: L'Ile de Groix

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The Viking ship burial found at L'lle de Groix in 1906 is well known for it's unique shield bosses. Although mentioned in many books I found it difficult to find our more about the other objests found along side the shield bosses. This article aims to resolve this. <br>
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In 1940 Shetelig's 'Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume IV' [BJORN and & SHETELIG 1940] summarised the original french 1908 journal report. [CHATELLIER and & PONTOIS 1908:p.137-232]. It is the authors intention to try and marry Bjorn's and Shetelig's summaries (in green text) with the images from the original 1908 French journal article. Where more information has been gained since the 1940's this has been added after the 1940's summary.
|width="600pt"| '''Sword Type O'''
[[File:L'lle de Groix Sword Reconstruction.jpg|thumb|right|100x150px|left]]
{{Colour|Green|The guard and the cross-piece of the pommel of a sword, of the five lobed type Jan Petersen O. Both pieces are of iron plated with silver and decorated with a peculiar scroll patterns, composed of ribbons filled with dots, resembling Jan Petersen fig.105. Scanty fragments only of the blade are extant. [BJORN and & SHETELIG 1940]}}
|- valign="top" id="Sword R"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Sword R.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''Sword Type R'''
{{Colour|Green|Fragment of the guard of a sword of iron, with plain bronze inlay, and three-lobed pommel of the same sword, Jan Petersen type R.[BJORN and & SHETELIG 1940]}}
|- valign="top" id="Sword Scabbard Chape"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Sword Scabbard Chape.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''Sword Scabbard Chape'''
{{Colour|Green|The ferrule of a sword's scabbard, of bronze, with open-work ornament presenting the figure of a bird with wings spread. [BJORN and & SHETELIG 1940]}}
|- valign="top" id="Spear heads"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Spear heads.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''3 Spear heads'''
{{Colour|Green|Small fragments of three spear-heads, one of them of Jan Petersen type I. [[:File:R522.jpg|R522]].[BJORN and & SHETELIG 1940]}}
|- valign="top" id="Axe heads"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Axe heads.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''2 Axe heads'''
{{Colour|Green|Fragments of two axes, both of them apparently of Jan Petersen type G.[BJORN and & SHETELIG 1940]}}
|- valign="top" id="Arrow heads"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Arrow heads.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''8 Arrow heads'''
{{Colour|Green|Fragments of 8 arrow-heads of iron, [[:File:R539.jpg|R539]].[BJORN and & SHETELIG 1940]}}
|- valign="top" id="Scandinavian Shield bosses"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Scandinavian Shield bosses.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''17 Scandinavian Shield bosses'''
{{Colour|Green|Fragments of 17 shield-bosses all of them badly broken and defective. The majority are of the regular Norse type [[:File:R562.jpg|R562]], hemispherical, with a flat rim fastened to the board by four rivets, and with a slight contraction between the boss and the rim. [BJORN and & SHETELIG 1940]}}
|- valign="top" id="Other Shield bosses"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Other Shield bosses.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''4 Other Shield bosses'''
{{Colour|Green|Four of the bosses present forms never found in Scandinavia. The boss itself is plain and rounded, somewhat steeper than the hemisphere. In two of them the rim is provided with six pointed projections, each of them with three rivets, while two others have the rim provided with eight rounded projections, each of them likewise bearing three rivets. One fragment of a rim shows a densely set series of rivet-holes and the border finely indented and the border finely indented.[BJORN and & SHETELIG 1940]}}
|- valign="top" id="Knife"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Knife.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''Knife'''
{{Colour|Green|Fragment of the blade of an iron knife.[BJORN and & SHETELIG 1940]}}
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|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Silver Button.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''Silver Button'''
A silver button.[BJORN and & SHETELIG 1940]
|- valign="top" id="Ornamented iron and copper alloy object"
|width="100pt"| [[File:L'lle de Groix Ornamented iron and copper alloy object.jpg|thumb|100x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''Ornamented iron and copper alloy object'''
An ornamented iron and copper alloy object. Identified as being too wide to be part of a sword pommel and is also unlikely to be part of a brooch [CHATELLIER and & PONTOIS 1908:p.181 fig.37]
|- valign="top" id="Plaited Chain"