Sword (piece)

This piece of a bronze sword was found at Ardintoul on Loch Alsh in Ross and Cromarty. It is part of a prestigious possession, used sometime between 950 and 750 BC.

Two pieces of the leaf-shaped blade survive. The hilt and point are 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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Online ID:	000-100-034-419-C
Image Rights Holder:	National Museums Scotland
Project:	0098: National Museums Scotland Project description \| View all records in project
Ref:	National Museums Scotland X.DL 60
Date:	Between 950 and 750 BC
Material:	Bronze; leaf-shaped; broken off below the hilt; point missing
Dimensions:	11.00" L
What:	Sword blade / portion
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Where:	Scotland, Ross and Cromarty, Loch Alsh
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Description:	Two pieces of blade of a bronze leaf-shaped sword, from Loch Alsh, Ross and Cromarty
References:	Coles, John M. Scottish late Bronze Age metalwork: typology, distributions and chronology. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 93 (1959-1960), pp 16-134, esp. 85.
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