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Fig. 15
(a) Sword found in the Thames, London (British Museum); (b) Sword found in the river Witham (British Museum); (c) Sword found in the Thames, Westminster Reach (Collection of Godfrey Williams, Esq.); (d) Sword found in the Thames, Wandsworth Reach (London Museum). The hilt three-quarter scale
detail, although greatly out of scale (Fig. 14). That they are represented in exaggeration as to size we can satisfy ourselves when we look at the Gargantuan sword arm and hand of the foremost king. As these are so much out of proportion, we may be assured that the sword was not actually six
