A metal detectorist unearthed a Viking sword fragment shaped like wild boars, a first-of-its-kind find for the Netherlands, photos show. Photo from the Fries Museum On a farm in the Netherlands ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a unique fragment of a Viking sword near Witmarsum, a village in northern Netherlands. The find, a pommel cap from the 10th century AD, once formed part of a gilded sword ...

A medieval Viking sword fragment unearthed in Friesland is unique for the Netherlands and one of only two such fragments ever found, the Fries Museum has said. The 10th-century copper pommel cap, ...