As axes are brandished across Lerwick today, a far more ancient Viking weapon has found its way to Shetland Museum and ...

Researchers stated that the sword's pommel had a ring attached to it. The team thinks the ring symbolizes some oath that the individual could have taken in front of the then-royalty. Experts think ...

Forged by some of the finest blacksmiths in all Bohemia Czechia, in partnership with Wulflund, the Invictus (undefeated) is ...

NATIONAL Museums Scotland (NMS) has acquired an extremely rare gold sword pommel, created around 700AD. Discovered in Stirlingshire, the object is one of the first of its kind found in Scotland.

The rounded knob at the end of the sword's handle, known as a pommel, also features a ring which might signify an allegiance to a noble or sovereign. The breathtaking sword is just one of many ...

Additionally, archaeologists found remains of the sword’s leather-and-wood scabbard, lined with beaver fur, and a symbolic ring attached to its pommel. The sword is just one of several ...

Buckles may have been used on a baldric - or sword-belt - and so the mystery object ... Geake said they occasionally found a bit of a sword pommel - a fitting at the top of a sword handle ...

The use of the unaccompanied single-handed falchion sword is covered in a considerable minority of the several treatises that ...

The hilt has a nickel-plated steel bowl guard decorated on the outside with a scroll design and has a sword knot slot near the pommel. The straight blade has a single fuller to each side to within ...