discovered that the inside of the sword's scabbard is lined with beaver fur. Also found in the grave, one of as many as 200 at the site, was a gold pendant known as a bracteate. It boasts a ...
Paul Mortimer, who has created replicas of weapons found at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's belt ...
The sword, while exciting, was not the only discovery unearthed. Archaeologists also found a gold pendant adorned with a dragon or serpent figure in the same grave, whihc is akin to those worn by ...
Found in a man’s grave ... which they think could hold as many as 200 interments. The sword-hugging man’s grave also contained a gold pendant engraved with a dragon or serpent, which ...