The orcs want the black sword hilt he carries—the one bearing Sauron’s mark—because it’s no mere magical weapon or even a memento. It’s some kind of “key” that has the “power” to ...

The sword itself is rusty but whole, with a straight hilt and an oval pommel atop its ... point of view,” noted the university, “as mortuary cemeteries from the time of the Crusades are ...

The sword's décor includes gilded elements of the typical Iron Age and Viking Age animal styles found between 550 and 1050. The hilt is also decorated with geometrical patterns in silver ...

The hilt of a the recently discovered Bronze Age sword, which was extraordinarily well-preserved Archäologie-Büro Dr. Woidich / Sergiu Tifui A rare sight greeted archaeologists excavating a ...

The bronze sword with an octagonal hilt was found in a grave in the southern town of Nördlingen. It is thought to be from the late 14th Century BC. Its condition is so good "it almost still ...

it is a sword that is very well preserved The sword was found in the tomb of a man and the hilt is made of silver and gold, and has a ring that is fused to the pommel at the top. It has a blade ...

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Fionntan Hughes found the basket hilt sword with his brand new metal detector A schoolboy who got a metal detector for his 10th birthday struck lucky the first day he used it by finding a sword ...