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 ...

It was generally used by Roman cavalry but found its way into ... Another sword type was the gladius graecus, or the Greek sword. Like the Thraex, the Romans devised a type of gladiator based ...