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from Jacksbank Farm, Glenbervie, Kincardineshire

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This bronze sword is one of two found while digging a drain at Jacksbank Farm near Glenberbie in Kincardineshire. The hoard was buried sometime between 950 and 750 BC.

The leaf-shaped blade has one rivet hole in each wing and two on the hilt plate for securing a handle. The tip is missing and the blade is broken.

Prestigious weapons such as swords are sometimes found broken or placed in special places such as water where they were unlikely to have been placed for safekeeping. Such deposits may be offerings to the gods, ritually destroyed as part of a ceremony we can only guess at.

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