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.

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British ... and a pommel on the bottom of the hilt bearing a ring symbol that suggests the sword’s owner had ...

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 ...