10th century AD. An iron sword comprising a broad lentoid-section two-edged blade of Peirce's Type 3 with fullers for most of its length; curved guard with inlaid silver wire decoration consisting of scrolls, tendrils and loops; broad tang, pommel of Type O with scooped lower edge and five radiating lobes, similar inlaid wire decoration. Cf. Peirce, I., Swords of the Viking Age, Woodbridge, 2002, p.87-9, for a similar find from Vestre Berg, Norway, now in the Universitets Oldsaksamling, Oslo. 1.3 kg, 89cm (35"). From an important English collection; acquired in the 1990s; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10202-162582. The five-lobed pommel in which the lobes radiate from a curved base is particularly associated with Norwegian swords.