Rafał Proszowski and Mariusz Lampa from the Inventum Association spotted this artifact, which was confirmed by experts to be a spatha, a long sword that was used by Roman soldiers. According to ...
Instead of shell casings or coins, the two metal detectorists and history enthusiasts unearthed a three-foot-long Roman-era sword that dates back nearly 2,000 years. “We’d never found anything like ...
It turned out to be a remarkable find; a Roman sword; a spatha dated to the 2nd-3rd century AD and rare in Britain. It is one of only eight in the country, most of these were recovered from Roman ...