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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 663185

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH74NW 9 c. 73 45.

A leaf-shaped sword of the late Bronze Age was found at Culloden and is now preserved in Berlin Museum.

W Henderson 1938.

(Gundlingen type - unclassified). Near Culloden Moor, Inverness. Single find, found two and a half miles from Culloden Moor. Sword, missing top of hilt. Length 65.3cm, shoulder width 5.9cm, maximum blade width 3cm. Dark brown patina, gold where rubbed, rivets ?:4, five in situ. Berlin, Mus. fur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte (V.d 1).

C B Burgess and I Colquhoun 1988.

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