The sword was among a collection unearthed from an early medieval cemetery ... were undergoing conservation and would eventually be on display at the Folkestone Museum. Digging for Britain ...

An early medieval bucket atop one of the graves Duncan Sayer Hoping to shed new light on funerary practices, conservator Dana Goodburn-Brown is studying and preserving the sword in a lab.

The excavation team determined the tombs belonged to the Lombard dynasty, royal members of the court, and medieval monks In addition to discovering the sixth-century sword, there were remnants of ...