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SWORD
Unique ID: GLO-E2045B
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
~~Early Medieval, Anglo-Saxon iron sword blade fragment. This fragment has heavily corroded with truncated forward and rear ends, the blades are parallel and do no0t appear to taper suggesting that this would have come from somewhere in the middle of the sword. The edges of the blade are corroded and uneven, the spine of the sword appears to be flat although this heavily encrusted in corrosion.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 500
Date to: Circa AD 700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 175 mm
Width: 43 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st April 2017 - Sunday 2nd July 2017
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Cotswold (District)
To be known as: Cotswolds
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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