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Sword

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from Shuna, Inner Hebrides

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This bronze sword was found with two others, points downwards in the peat, on the island of Shuna in the Inner Hebrides. The hoard was deposited between 950 and 750 BC.

The leaf-shaped blade has three rivet holes in each wing and one in the hilt plate for securing handle. The pommel end of the handle has broken off.

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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