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A Sword of the Viking Period from the River Witham

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Herbert Maryon
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A Little more than a century ago, in October 1848, an inscribed iron sword of the tenth century (pl. xxi a) was presented to the British Museum by J. Hayward, Esquire, of Beaumont Manor, Lincoln. The sword was stated to have been found during the widening of the river Witham opposite Monks Abbey, Lincoln.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 3-4 , October 1950 , pp. 175 - 179
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1950

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page 175 note 1 Mr.Kendrick, , in a paper published in Eurasia Septentrionalis Antiqua, ix (1934), 392–8Google Scholar, gave an enlarged photograph of one of the devices decorating the hilt and pommel. He showed that they were produced by hammering or burnishing sheets of metallic foil on to the hatched, roughened surface of the iron.

page 176 note 1 Professor of Environmental Archaeology in the University of London.