sword
- Museum number
- 1939,1010.95
- Description
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Iron pattern-welded sword blade, heavily corroded. The blade is broad and tapers slightly towards the pointed tip. Near the hilt, two circular indentations mark the position of the two scbbard bosses 1939,1010.26-27. Traces of the wooden sheath remain on the blade (1939,1010.95.C). For the hilt fittings, see 1939,1010.19-25.
- Production date
- 6thC-7thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Length: 720 millimetres (blade)
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Length: 851 millimetres (overall, with scabbard and hilt)
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Width: 64 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The Sutton Hoo sword was not restored from fragments - it was lifted as a solid but rusted unit. A more proper description, based on the catalogue entry in Sutton Hoo, Volume I. p. 441, would read: pattern-welded iron blade rusted in an oxydised fur-lined wooden scabbard, bound round the top with tapes. ACE, 25 June 1990.
Attached to 1939,1010.19
Attached to 1939,1010.20
Attached to 1939,1010.21
Attached to 1939,1010.22
Attached to 1939,1010.23
Attached to 1939,1010.24
Attached to 1939,1010.25
- Location
- On display (G41/dc1/sA)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2002 13 Mar-26 Sep, Woodbridge, The National Trust-Sutton Hoo Exhibition Centre, Warriors
1980 10 Mar-30 Sep, Sweden, Stockholm, Statens Historika Museum, The Vikings are Here
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1939,1010.95
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1939,10-10,28 (former number)
