Two 2,300-year-old swords discovered in a Celtic Iron Age necropolis in France "have few equivalents in Europe," and one is decorated with tiny swastikas, the French National Institute of Preventive ...

Today, the site lies in the small French town of Creuzier-le-Neuf, but back in the Second ... shapes (ocelli) and long curves." Two swords were found in their scabbards, and INRAP said: "One ...

A massive seven-foot-long iron sword has been found in a burial mound ... The blade is about 2.3 inches wide, but the partially remaining scabbard is about 3.5 inches wide due to the meandering ...

Like some of the bracelets, this sword's scabbard has ocelli. The long sword has "all the characteristics of a functional weapon," as it could be worn by a rider and its scabbard was not richly ...