Rare 1,100-year-old Viking sword pulled from Oxfordshire river

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A 1,100-year-old Viking sword has been pulled from an Oxfordshire river in a uncommon discovery unearthed by a magnet fisherman.

The weapon was discovered within the River Cherwell final 12 months and has now been confirmed thus far again to between AD 850 and 975.

Despite the close by landowner not permitting magnet fishing, he agreed no authorized motion can be taken and it’s now within the care of the Oxford Museum.

Trevor Penny, who discovered the thing, informed Live Science: “I was on the side of the bridge and shouted to a friend on the other side of the bridge, ‘What is this? He came running over shouting ‘It looks like a sword!’”

The Vikings reached British soil within the eighth century, having raided a monastery on Lindisfarne, an island off Britain’s northeast coast, in 793.

It comes after a 2,000-year-old “bullet” discovered with a Roman dictator’s identify on it was possible used as propaganda, in response to archaeologists.

The lead projectile, inscribed with the identify of Julius Caesar, was unearthed in Spain and will have been used with a slingshot by the final’s troops.

The artefact – identified to specialists as a “glans inscripta” – measures 4.5 by 2 centimetres and weighs 71 grams and would have been made utilizing a mildew into which molten lead was poured.

On one aspect, an inscription reads “IPSCA” – possible Latin for an unknown Spanish city – whereas the opposite reads “CAES” for Ceasar.

Experts say the invention may show Indigenous Spaniards supported the reason for the dictator throughout his civil warfare in 49 to 45BC.