Fragments of a rare Roman-era helmet were discovered alongside nearly 200 weapons, all buried in the foundations of two homes in Denmark. The first-of-its-kind find outside the borders of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the hidden items were swords, spears, lances, chainmail, and the only Roman helmet that had ever ... but the excavation has exceeded all our expectations," said Elias Witte Thomasen, the ...

little bits of weapons and armour and like a detective, those are the clues that we use to find out what the Roman people were doing here all that time ago. Presenter: And what’s particularly ...