Record Details
| NHER Number: | 34130 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Elizabethan sword |
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Summary
A dress sword from the time of Elizabeth I was found when a sewer opposite the Swan Inn was cleaned out in 1851.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | OUTWELL, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| WEST NORFOLK |
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Full description
17 May 1851. Quoted from unnamed newspaper in (S1)
Found when cleaning out a sewer opposite the Swan Inn. Dress sword of Elizabethan period. Given by innkeeper to William Sheppings of Lynn.
No Swan Inn is shown on (S2) or (S3), (S4) or (S5). The site may lie in Cambridgeshire.
E. Rose (NLA), 23 December 1998.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- SWORD (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Publication: 1998. The Quarterly. No 32. |
Related records - none
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