Fionntan Hughes found the basket hilt sword with his brand new metal detector A schoolboy who got a metal detector for his 10th birthday struck lucky the first day he used it by finding a sword ...

"What a fine thing to find," said Philip Spooner, who has been an antique dealer for more than 30 years. "The sword is basket hilt-type sword as used by English officers and dragoons from about ...

A rare basket-hilted sword pulled from the wreck of the Mary Rose has gone on display for the first time. The sword is unusual because historians are able to date it precisely to the sinking of Henry ...