Metal Detectorists Stumble on A 2000-Year-Old Roman Sword in the Woods, Experts Say The Forest Holds Many More Secrets Poland ...

The sword was found broken into three pieces, a condition that suggests it was deposited as part of a funerary offering. This ...

It turned out to be a remarkable find; a Roman sword; a spatha dated to the 2nd-3rd century AD and rare in Britain. It is one of only eight in the country, most of these were recovered from Roman ...

[The dealer] had no idea of the origin, although the then curator of Roman art at the Metropolitan Museum, Carlos Picón, had identified it as a Lusitanian mosaic from the 3rd century," he ...

It turned out to be a remarkable find; a Roman sword; a spatha dated to the 2nd-3rd century AD and rare in Britain. It is one of only eight in the country, most of these were recovered from Roman ...