X-rays and initial conservation of the sword and scabbard reveal detailed copper-alloy decoration at the scabbard mouth, which would have been highly visible when the sword was worn in life.

This sword was probably owned by an Iron Age Chieftain and was deposited as an offering to the Gods over 2000 years ago.Iron Age 'La Tene' sword with exquisite bronze scabbard, which would have ...

Paul Mortimer, who has created replicas of weapons found at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's ...