Following painstaking conservation and reassembly of broken parts it is now the centrepiece of the Roman gallery in Lancaster City Museum, part of Lancashire County Museum Service.

The metal blades and wooden toy swords were unearthed during an excavation of a Roman cavalry barrack at Vindolanda ... spokesman said it was the "ancient equivalent of a modern soldier abandoning ...

Two rare Roman cavalry swords have been discovered by a metal detectorist. Found by Glenn Manning during a metal detectorist rally in March, the swords, which also had remnants of their wooden ...