11th-12th century AD. An iron two-edged sword with broad two-edged lentoid-section blade, slightly tapering square-section crossguard. flat tang, D-shaped pommel with inlaid silver(?) vertical bar to each face; the blade with traces of copper inlay to one face, to the other two applied discs: the upper copper-alloy with punched rosette detailing, the lower abraded to its present state of three concentric rings (apparently copper, bronze and silver"). See Oakeshott, E., Records of the Medieval Sword, Woodbridge, 1991, items X.4, X.5, and see p.21, item 8, for the blade. 850 grams, 61cm (24"). The property of a private family; previously acquired from a collection formed before 1990; thence by descent. The blade does not bear a fuller and is a plain lentoid-section which might indicate a date of manufacture in the 5th-8th century in northern Europe; the crossguard and the pommel are later additions, more typical of the later 10th century, i.e. Petersen's Type X (Oakeshott, p.25"). [No Reserve] Fair condition; lower blade absent; edges notched and partly absent.