Here is a 6th century Saxon grave at Barrow Clump in Wiltshire, UK. Featured is a spear head and a sword. That sword looks to have an unusually long blade for this period. -

https://www.facebook.com/roger.hooper.10/posts/2008628335828471:50

8 yr old girl finds sword in lake while swimming at family cabin. Quite a nice looking piece for being so shallow in a lake though they did say the lake was very low due to draught. Very cool! Look forward to more info when some work on the sword has been done. Hopefully the local museum is well budgeted.

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USA Today couple of pics

BBC Coverage I PIc

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Finnish Article? with pic of broach piece

Here is some new video, with much better detail and angles from NBC. Obviously blade is still in scabbard with quite a bit of the covering remaining. Will be interesting to see how this comes through preservation and what the details will show.

Edit fixed link to go to video that deals with sword find, but they edited out the closeups of the sword. Did anyone keep a copy?

Better video of Sword

Wow - can not wait to see what they dig up - hope its not too damaged from being plowed over to reduce the ground cover to 50 cm ...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/15/viking-ship-burial-discovered-in-norway-just-50cm-underground

I find this incredibly interesting as it is so rare to find material surviving artifacts from the Nordic cultures in the places like Turkey even though their participation in the historical period is well known. Not to mention the article is pretty well written for a sword find article, Usually they spend most of the article taking about some misinformation or King Arthur here its straight forward and well stated.

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A sword, probably a XIVth century one, found in Ain, Valencia region in Spain.

https://apuntmedia.es/va/noticies/societat/troben-una-espasa-medieval-a-ain-durant-les-obres-al-castell

https://www.cope.es/emisoras/comunidad-valenciana/castellon-provincia/castellon/noticias/encuentran-una-espada-medieval-las-obras-del-castillo-ain-20181226_316183?fbclid=IwAR0F08jhRrLT4zvEneluUQFdkoAkagIA8EiS147gQ8XOhEAVwjEgpvxGzKY

Thats a very nice sword Ian thanks for posting it,

Just saw this pop up but it is supposedly already on display so it may have been mentioned earlier.

Copper Axe find Bulgaria

Cool stuff, obviously a major production stock or very rich patron.

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Spathas and other weapons excavated at Vindolanda --- http://www.histecho.com/roman-swords-unearthe...20CjYciz4E

Here is an excellent sword found in Denmark recently. Sewer maintenance found it in a layer they say equates to the 1300's.
Details given: Weight 2.2 lbs 43 inches long

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Good pic here

News story with stupid title :-)

That sword is fantastic. The hilt furniture looks like it could be from the early 14th century, but the blade looks to my untrained eye to be something like a Geibig 5/9/13. Overall it looks to me like the sword is earlier than the 14th century. I could not really find any analogies on manuscriptminiatures.com, nor on effigiesandbrasses.com, though my search as admittedly not really in depth. Does the piece look older to anyone else?

Excavation of Sarmation graves in the southern Urals - Iron age sword - http://nfd2009.com/antic/filippovka/?fbclid=I...JQZUA9pWE0

This is interesting, Roman army is pretty impressive in what they achieved.

Roman Army camp found in Scotland

Found but not in the usual way for this thread :-) These pieces are truly amazing if you get a chance to see them in person do so.

Lewis chessman found

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11,000 year old Mesolithic deer antler masks at Star Carr, England - https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/deer-masks-021960 -

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