A tiny Sutton Hoo-era gold and garnet mount for an Anglo-Saxon warrior's sword belt has been found during a metal detecting event. Treasure expert Helen Geake described the find as one of ...

This sword was probably owned by an Iron Age Chieftain and was deposited as an offering to the Gods over 2000 years ago.Iron Age 'La Tene' sword with exquisite bronze scabbard, which would have ...

The sword that was found was still in its wooden scabbard. And the remains of complex decorative straps have also survived more than three millennia in the ground. Mr Stępień was searching a ...

due to being found without the sword's usual casing of a scabbard. "Being expensive, swords are usually found within a scabbard. In this case, only the sword was found," Gosker said. "From this ...

This sword once belonged to the paramount chief of the Iban, Temonggong Koh. He was an Iban war leader who had risen to power in the second half of the 19th century under the White Rajahs as they ...

He added that sun and moon designs can also be found on short swords throughout continental Europe from the third and fourth centuries B.C. The second sword was longer and its scabbard still has ...

Several cabochons [polished gemstones] adorn the edges of the already richly decorated scabbard. At least two of them feature swastika decorations and probably glass paste. The sword consists of a ...

the same sword, scabbard, and belt that belonged to Lieutenant Griffin," said Paul Rogan, G.A.R Camp Post 139 Treasurer. Once they realized it was Griffin's sword, the next goal was bringing it ...

Paul Mortimer, who has created replicas of weapons found at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's ...