Context (Related Documents)
See lantern slide (LS.134975.TC1) in Photographic Collection.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (CMS Description)
Iron sword with 'Brazil Nut' pommel.
Event Date 7/8/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Found: Found 300 yards above Littleport Bridge. Noted in pencil on catalogue card: 'Early XIII, certainly foreign, probably French. Kennard'.
Event Date 7/8/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
In his 1994 edition of 'The Sword in the Age of Chivalry', Oakeshott identifies this sword as Type X, and dates it to the second half of the 10th century. As this is the most recent assessment, the Period field has been updated with this date.
Event Date 25/3/2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (CMS Description)
Iron sword with straight quillons and an oval pommel. Blade inscribed in iron letters: obverse reads 'CONSTAININUS', reverse reads 'INONINEDNI'.
Event Date 25/3/2015
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Oakeshott, E. 1994. The Sword in the Age of Chivalry. Boydell Press: Woodbridge, Suffolk. Plate 2 C
Event Date 25/3/2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card reads: 'Prof. Bruce Dickins says: For typology, see R. Ewart Oakeshott, "The Archaeology of Weapons" (London, 1960). He puts this sword between c. 983 and c. 1100.'
Event Date 25/3/2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Lethbridge, T.C. and O'Reilly, M.M. 1932. 'Archaeological Notes'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 32. pp. 65-66. Pl. VI (figure 2)
Event Date 5/6/2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Iron sword with an asymmetrical pointed oval pommel, tapered tang and slightly angular shoulders. Tapered cross-guard with a rectangular cross-section; blade tapers to a point with a wide fuller down the length of the blade. Blade is inscribed with in iron letters; obverse reads 'CONSTAINUS', reverse reads 'INONINEDNI'. Large portion of the blade has come away and is missing at the cross-guard end of the blade.
Event Date 5/5/2021
Author: Sam Daisley