The Type E Sword was found in the Sarsky fort, which was a medieval fortified settlement in the Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia.
The sword is dated to the 9th c.
It was found in 1874 during M. Kustsinsky’s excavation of Barrow 15, which contained a double cremation burial. The sword was stuck in the ground near the urn with remains of cremation.
The sword can be defined as Variant E-1, which is characterised by the ornament of simple pits. The pits are arranged in a chequer wise manner.
On one side of the blade was a +ULFBERH+T mark and on the other side- a composition of vertical lines with two “volutes”.