The two toy swords are like those available in the Vindolanda gift shop Two Roman swords and a pair of 2,000-year-old wooden toys like those available in a museum gift shop have been discovered at ...

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 ...