Well-Preserved Runic-Inscribed Sword Unearthed from a Cemetery, Sheds New Light on Funerary Practices An astonishing find of ...

The lead archaeologist at the grave site told Newsweek that the sword was an "elite object that marked its owner out as special." ...

Anglo-Saxons also used runes (marked stones) but little has survived. Much of our evidence comes from archaeology: burials, grave goods, treasure hoards and building remains. These combs are made ...

When a roughly 1,500-year-old sword is described as still being in the “top echelons of swords,” you know that’s a pretty ...

Dating to the fifth and sixth centuries C.E., the burials held a trove of grave goods—but the team was particularly impressed ...

The blade bears an inscription in runic script, and remnants of its leather ... "It's an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon cemetery, with really beautifully furnished graves, a lot of weapon burials ...

Archaeologists discovered a rare sixth-century sword at an Anglo-Saxon burial site near Canterbury, England. They hope the early medieval weapon, which has drawn comparisons to the famous Sutton Hoo ...

The weapon features a gild and silver decorative pattern on the hilt, and runic script on the blade ... To read about an Anglo-Saxon feasting hall unearthed in southeastern England, go to ...

Archaeologists have been left astonished after unearthing a remarkable sixth-century sword from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in ... and a blade inscribed with runic characters. Remarkably, parts ...