There were leather-and-wood scabbards and beaver fur that were part of its make ... into the Anglo-Saxon funerary customs. Conservator Dana Goodburn-Brown discovered fly pupae on the sword which ...

But it is the six centuries of Anglo-Saxon rule ... The number of sword pommels in the Staffordshire Hoard, 92, roughly corresponds with the number of men noted as making up one nobleman's ...

The early Anglo-Saxon object found in North Norfolk 'looks like it fits into something else', an expert has said A mystery object found by a metal detector in Norfolk could be linked to a sword ...

Experts from Littlehampton Museum believe the small gold plate may have been decoration on a sword. The Anglo-Saxons "made the whole thing from scratch" rather than reuse an old coin, says an expert.