Rafał Proszowski and Mariusz Lampa were searching for World War II-era artifacts in the snowy woods of the Polish Jura when their metal detectors revealed an unexpected—and much rarer—item. Instead of ...

The sword itself is identified as a spatha, a type of straight, long sword used by Celtic auxiliaries in the Roman army during the first century CE. The spatha gradually became a standard heavy ...

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 ...

Experts from the Częstochawa Museum secured the sword for analysis ... spatha sword, a type of long, straight weapon that was used by Celtic auxiliaries in the Roman army during the 1st century ...

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 ...