WATCH: 400-year-old sword belonged to infamous Border Reiver

Border
Dumfries and Galloway
Border Reivers
Annan Museum
Wednesday 3 May 2017 at 6:35pm

Research points to the 400-year-old sword belonging to Kinmont Willie Credit: ITV Border

Found during an audit of items at Annan Museum was a 400-year-old one metre long sword. With it an old label where the faded handwriting linked the sword to an infamous Border Reiver named Kinmont Willie.All the research points to the fact this sword was Willie's weapon choice.

Finally arrested by the English, dragged off to Carlisle castle and then sprung out of jail by the Scots. Each sword in the exhibition has it's own story.

Paul Crone went to find out more:

The sword in the story exhibition in Dumfries runs until June the 17th before moving to Annan.