Rafał Proszowski and Mariusz Lampa from the Inventum Association spotted this artifact, which was confirmed by experts to be a spatha, a long sword that was used by Roman soldiers. According to ...

Each legionnaire (or 'miles') carried a short sword, called a gladius ... At the northern limit of the Roman Empire was Britain. Soldiers and their families found it to be a cold, remote, hostile ...

The sword itself is identified as a spatha, a type of straight, long sword used by Celtic auxiliaries in the Roman army during the first century CE. The spatha gradually became a standard heavy ...

Roman soldiers spent a long time training and practicing ... the soldiers on the outside stabbed at them with their swords. The Romans also had soldiers who were expert archers.

JULIA: I just found this fragment of rusty metal. It doesn’t look like much but this was once a sword. A sword known as…the gladius! The gladius was part of the Roman soldier’s equipment ...