The artifact was remarkably preserved for a millennium in anaerobic clay on a private estate near the city of Montfoort ...

A medieval sword has gone on display at a museum in the Netherlands after its chance discovery during a dredging operation on ...

It would have been one of the most ornamented heavy swords of the period, while the remaining hilt is decorated with ... in northern England near the Scottish borderlands. "The location of the ...

The design of the sword drew inspiration from the Scottish landscape and the country ... features a steel blade with a silver-gilt hilt, encased in a velvet-covered wooden scabbard.

“So the nature of it, the fact that the hilt and the quillings ... late Queen died last year when the Scottish Government approved the creation of a new sword in her honour.

Mark Dennis – Designer, Alan Beattie Herriot sculptor (he made the hilt), Pete Waugh – videographer who has documented the whole project, Paul Macdonald – sword maker. The team behind the sword.

Mark Dennis – Designer, Alan Beattie Herriot sculptor (he made the hilt), Pete Waugh – videographer who has documented the whole project, Paul Macdonald – sword maker. The team behind the sword.