This discovery was made in a previously unexplored Anglo-Saxon cemetery located ... fascinating features of the sword is the presence of a ring attached to its pommel, which archaeologists believe ...

CANTERBURY, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in ... A ring on the pommel is thought to symbolize an oath ...

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British ... runic characters on the blade, and a pommel on the bottom of the hilt bearing a ring symbol that ...

A member of a British metal detecting club is being credited with finding the biggest cache of Anglo-Saxon relics ever discovered ... including 84 pommel caps and 71 sword hilt collars removed ...

A prominent feature is a ring attached to its pommel, possibly symbolizing ... which are Anglo-Saxon knives—and then there's this astonishing sword," said Professor Alice Roberts, who presents ...

An incredible Anglo-Saxon sword unearthed in a field in Kent has been revealed for the first time on BBC programme Digging for Britain. Described as 'one of the most extraordinary objects' ever ...

An “exceptionally rare” solid-gold sword pommel discovered by a metal ... “It certainly has a lot of inheritance from Anglo-Saxon art, but it belongs to this period of the most amazing ...

said the pommel would have been fixed to the end of the sword handle, both as a counterbalance and to stop the hand slipping. He said the one found was a "beautiful example of fine Anglo-Saxon ...