Whatever happened to Wallace's sword?

For those of you who answered my poll: "Do you think that William Wallace's sword still exists?" with the answer "I don't know", you are correct.  As far as anyone can tell, nobody knows whether or not William Wallace's sword really does exist, though evidence towards it being around it favorable.

Wallace's six-pound sword has an interesting "alleged" history.  King James IV of Scotland paid 26 shillings to an armorer for "The binding of Wallace's sword with cords of silk" and providing it with "a new hilt and scabbard" in 1505.  Historians crow that this would have to be done, for after all, Wallace's sword was made with dried skin on the hilt and pommel.

Apart from that "evidence" there is some evidence that it was moved from Dumberton Castle to the Wallace monument in 1885.  It was later moved to the 2005 Tartan Day Celebration in New York City in 2005.  The sword in the picture above is most likely the one he might have used, because the metal it was made of is extremely strong. 

The evidence that I can find is in in favor of Wallace's sword being around, even though evidence for it is extremely hard to find.  For all we know, his sword might have been destroyed in the medieval times, for they had a practice that "a sword should not outlive its owner".





Thank you to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace_Sword --- And to BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/as/warsofindependence/info.shtml?loc=sword