Paul Mortimer, who has created replicas of weapons found at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's belt ...

in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's belt "with some form of very thin fabric or leather". "Swords are usually ...

Bottom line: This 19th-century sword came from the estate of a military antique collector. Its age is apparent, but it doesn’t appear to have been used much to remain a valuable collectible. The ...

Remarkably, researchers also recovered parts of the sword’s scabbard—a sheath of wood and leather lined in beaver fur. “Swords like this are very special,” Duncan Sayer of the University ...

A sixth-century sword has been unearthed by archaeologists from a Lancashire university. The well-preserved weapon was recovered by University of Central Lancashire archaeologists from an Anglo ...

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