It seems not too long ago, it may have been posted here, there were a number of historically valuable very old Indian swords, including khandas and patissa forms. These had blades cut off about 1/3 down from hilt. They were well patinated, and sold in an 'as is' lot in an auction.
While no provenance was noted, it would seem these may have been in a small arsenal or store of weapons, and as they were important traditional arms, their retention may have been allowed if they were neutralized.
This is contrary to the outcome in the well known larger armouries where select weapons were held aside but the bulk were destroyed as scrap .
The items being dumped at sea were described in Robert Elgood's book on Islamic firearms but reference not handy at the moment.
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