Tag: Oxfordshire (England)

This Treasure Hunter’s Latest Find? A 1,000-Year-Old Viking Sword.

The long, thin piece of metal looked like a scaffolding pole when Trevor Penny saw it on the banks of an English river last November. That would not have surprised Mr. Penny, who, while practicing his magnet fishing hobby, has unearthed household items, tools and other metal debris from the waterways near his Oxfordshire home. […]

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