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Inverbroom
Sword (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Inverbroom
Classification Sword (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 12126
Site Number NH18SE 2
NGR NH 17 84
NGR Description NH c. 17 84
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12126
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochbroom
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH18SE 2 c. 17 84
Possibly on map sheet NH18NE.
A late Bronze Age leaf-shaped sword with a bronze pommel found by a gamekeeper in the cleft of a rock above Inverbroom in 1896.
In Aberdeen Museum; fascsimile in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) - DL 45.
PSA London 1901; J Anderson 1896; W Henderson 1938; J M Coles 1962.
(Ewart Park type - Caledonian unclassified). Single find. Heavy, well-cast sword, with wide blade. Length 70.4cm, terminal width 5.25cm, shoulder width 6.2cm, maximum blade width 5.25cm: very heavy, well cast and in excellent condition, dark green patina. The tang can be seen underneath the pommel showing that the handle and sword were cast seperately: solid cast hilt. Aberdeen City Mus. (45.2.236, WS Bell collection).
C B Burgess and I Colquhoun 1988.
