It seems nobody posted this link before.

Note object
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Elizabethan "basket-hilt" sword (Fld-464)
from the English Avalon colony in Newfoundland.

http://www.heritage.nf.ca/avalon/artifacts/misc1.html

Looks likes the hilt components were discarted next to a forge. It is very unusual to find such old sword parts North of Virginia.