I usually try to pick up any weapons lying on the ground and sell them or stuff them somewhere so they will dissapear because well. I hate it to see all this stuff lying around. Now for the record, I am playing with both dawnguard and heartfire with a game that jumped straight from the 1.4 to the 1.7 patch.

Here's the thing. It has been a couple of times now I find weapons lying in Skyrim in the middle of the road. At first, I touhgt I might have missed a few weapons but now it is getting ridiculous. Just beside Riften, I found a dead bandit and around him, there was about 20 weapons, half of them iron stuff and the other half ancicent nord stuff!?!?!? I simply cannot have forgotten THAT many weapons especially that since I've got dawnguard I traveled that road to get to fort dawnguard numerous time. Not to mention I do not recall ever seeing a Draugr under an open sky.

Is that some kind of random encounter I had never seen before or is that a new glitch I am unfamiliar with. And if it is a glitch, is there a way to prevent it?