The sword shown in Fig. 342 was found about the year 1864 in the Thames, near Battersea Bridge, and is now in my own collection. Its length is 25¼ inches, and the blade is 2⅛ inches broad in its broadest part, though at the top of the hilt it is 2⅜ inches in breadth. Just above this point the edge of the blade has been removed so as to form two broad notches, the object being probably to save the hand of the warrior from being cut should the sword be drawn back in his hand, there being apparently no transverse guard. The hilt has been attached by rivets or pins passing through three longitudinal slots, which have been produced in the casting, and not subsequently drilled or made. The hilt-plate expands into a kind of fish-tail termination, which was probably enclosed in a pommel-like end formed by the plates of horn, or other material, of which the hilt was made. I have another sword, about 21 inches in length, which was found in the year 1851 near the circular encampment at Hawridge, on the south-eastern border of Buckinghamshire. The hilt-plate is of the same character as that of Fig. 342, but the lower slot is longer and the upper ones shorter. In the latter were found the bronze rivets for fastening on the hilt. This blade is figured on a small scale in the _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries_.[1021] [Illustration: Fig. 343. Barrow. ¼] Another sword (22 inches) of the same character, with three pointed oval slots for the rivets, was found at Washingborough,[1022] Lincolnshire. Two other leaf-shaped swords were found near the same spot. Another (24 inches), found near Midsummer Norton,[1023] Somerset, has the central slot nearly rectangular. The central slot is sometimes accompanied by two or more rivet-holes in the projecting wings of the hilt-plate. A sword (24 inches) with two rivets was found between Woodlands and Gussage St. Michael,[1024] Dorset. Another, broken, was found, with fragments of others, socketed celts, spear-heads, a sickle, and other objects, near the Pierre du Villain, Alderney.[1025] One (24½ inches) from the Thames,[1026] at Battersea, and now in the Bateman Collection, has a long rectangular slot and four rivets. One of two (24 inches), found in broken condition, with a spear-head and two ferrules, on Fulbourn Common,[1027] near Cambridge, was of this type. Another, from Aldreth, Cambs. (23½ inches), is in the Museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. I have an example, originally 26 inches long, found with a leaf-shaped spear-head near Weymouth. The type occurs also in France. I have one (18¾ inches), with a slot and four rivets, from Albert, near Amiens. Another was found near Argenteuil,[1028] Seine et Oise. I have seen a bronze sword from Spain, also with the three slots.