A rare early medieval gold and garnet sword fitting discovered by a metal detectorist near Fakenham has been declared treasure.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved elite sword from a newly discovered Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury ...

CANTERBURY, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern England. The weapon features a gild and silver ...

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British county of Kent. The immaculately preserved sword was one of a handful of artifacts found at a site that ...

The gold and garnet pyramid mount found in Norfolk, England Norfolk County Council under CC BY-SA 4.0 In April, amateur metal detectorist Jamie Harcourt unearthed a gold and garnet sword pyramid—a ...

A sixth-century sword described as "astonishing" has been discovered at an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in rural England. Lead archaeologist Duncan Sayer of the University of Central Lancashire, told The ...