One 14¾ inches long, and of much the same outline, but flat in the centre instead of ridged, was found at Fisherton,[936] near Salisbury, and is in the Blackmore Museum. Another of the same character, but broad in the blade (16½ inches), was found in the Thames.[937]
Canon Greenwell has two rapier-like blades from the Thames, 17½ inches and 15⅝ inches long, from Sandford. With the latter was found a leaf-shaped blade (19 inches) with two rivet-holes in the base.
Such blades are almost long enough to be regarded as swords.
A weapon of this form (16⅞ inches), with the blade reduced in thickness towards the edges, and with two large rivets, one of them still in situ, was found in the Thames, and is now in the British Museum. Another in the same collection (12⅞ inches), from the Thames at Kingston, is much narrower at the base.
A blade of this character from Blair Drummond Moss was exhibited in the museum at Edinburgh, and is preserved at Blair Drummond House.
The type occurs in France. One found at Auxonne,[938] Haute Saône, is in the St. Germain Museum.
Another, rather shorter and broader, with two rivets and two notches in the sides of the base, was found in the bay of Penhouët[939] (Loire Inférieure).
Fig. 313.—Coveney. ½ — Fig. 314.—Thames. ½