He showed off some of his artworks: an intricate lock and an ornate, dragon-shaped steel dagger in a handcrafted leather scabbard. “If I want to pound on metal at 3 o'clock in the morning ...

The mount would be one of a pair used to decorate the band encasing the sword and helped bind it to its scabbard. While we don’t know the monetary value of this find, the coins dug up from a ...