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Exceptionally well-preserved 1,500-year-old sword unearthed in Anglo-Saxon cemetery
This incredibly rare sword, excavated from an “extraordinary Anglo-Saxon cemetery,” has been ... stunned archaeologists was a silver-and-gilt hilt sword in remarkably good condition.
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Well-Preserved Runic-Inscribed Sword Unearthed from a Cemetery, Sheds New Light on Funerary Practices
The weapon was stated to be in an exceptional state of preservation and was compared to the sword found at the Anglo-Saxon burial of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. It had a silver-and-gilt hilt with a ...
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Staffordshire Gold Hoard
There were more than 300 sword-hilt fittings, 92 sword-pommel caps ... But it is the six centuries of Anglo-Saxon rule, from shortly after the departure of the Roman colonizers, around A.D ...