diff --git a/dspace-services/pom.xml b/dspace-services/pom.xml
index 58673127fe99..852d6a648c37 100644
--- a/dspace-services/pom.xml
+++ b/dspace-services/pom.xml
@@ -128,23 +128,6 @@
             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <!-- testing only -->
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
-            <version>6.1.26</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jetty-servlet-tester</artifactId>
-            <version>6.1.26</version>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-configuration2</artifactId>
@@ -164,11 +147,5 @@
             <artifactId>jakarta.annotation-api</artifactId>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-log4j2</artifactId>
-            <version>${spring-boot.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-
     </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/dspace-sword/pom.xml b/dspace-sword/pom.xml
index 509ba213569a..d7aa12034314 100644
--- a/dspace-sword/pom.xml
+++ b/dspace-sword/pom.xml
@@ -25,15 +25,6 @@
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
-
-        <!-- Leave this out for the moment, as the source is in the tree -->
-        <!--
-        <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.dspace</groupId>
-        <artifactId>sword-common</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0.0</version>
-        </dependency>-->
-
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.dspace</groupId>
             <artifactId>dspace-api</artifactId>
@@ -63,11 +54,6 @@
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>jaxen</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jaxen</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
             <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
@@ -97,10 +83,6 @@
             <artifactId>xom</artifactId>
             <version>1.3.9</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/dspace/modules/server-boot/pom.xml b/dspace/modules/server-boot/pom.xml
index 4a8fd8f966ff..c9554109ab32 100644
--- a/dspace/modules/server-boot/pom.xml
+++ b/dspace/modules/server-boot/pom.xml
@@ -30,10 +30,6 @@
             <groupId>org.dspace</groupId>
             <artifactId>dspace-server-webapp</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
-            <artifactId>solr-solrj</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
 
         <!-- Test Dependencies -->
         <dependency>
diff --git a/dspace/modules/server/pom.xml b/dspace/modules/server/pom.xml
index d1b97a15fcfa..a3a927576b40 100644
--- a/dspace/modules/server/pom.xml
+++ b/dspace/modules/server/pom.xml
@@ -271,11 +271,6 @@
             <scope>provided</scope>
             <version>${spring-boot.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.solr</groupId>
-            <artifactId>solr-solrj</artifactId>
-            <version>${solr.client.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
 
         <!-- Test Dependencies -->
         <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c79ab8e8da99..5bd08d2061cf 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1164,11 +1164,7 @@
                     </exclusion>
                 </exclusions>
             </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.swordapp</groupId>
-                <artifactId>sword-common</artifactId>
-                <version>1.1</version>
-            </dependency>
+
             <!-- Explicitly Specify Latest Version of Spring -->
             <dependency>
                 <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
@@ -1477,14 +1473,6 @@
                 <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
                 <version>4.4</version>
             </dependency>
-            <!-- commons-collections v3 is still required by commons-beanutils,
-                 which is required by commons-configuration. Once those are
-                 upgraded, we should remove this dependency -->
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
-                <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
-                <version>3.2.2</version>
-            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
                 <artifactId>commons-configuration2</artifactId>