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Swords of Type VII found in Britain

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:Current Location-National Museum of Scotland: X.IL 174:Type-c.875-925

:Find date- 1875

:Total length-

:Blade- 12 fragments – double edged

:Hilt- Petersen type W? Identified as being similar to Petersen fig.123(Grieg 1940). Exact form unknown (Scran 2015)

:Scabbard-

:Comments- found with a plain penannular brooch, a belt, a whetstone, valuable beads and some small pieces of flint (Scran 2015)

:Bibliography-

::*{{ListRef|Grieg 1940|p.69-70}}

::*[http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-099-724-C nms.scran.ac.uk]

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