Boy from the province of Ulster, Northern Ireland, first used a metal detector and found a 300 year old sword. On it informs “bi-Bi-si”.
Ten years Fionntan (Fionntan) received a metal detector as a gift on birthday. During the first visit he tested new clothes and immediately found an ancient sword. The boy’s father said that beginners luck.
Philip Spooner (Philip Spooner), who 30 years sells Antiques, said that swords with this hilt stone baskets used or British officers and Dragoons from 1720 to 1780, the years, or the Scots from 1700 to 1850.
experts in the field of Antiques brothers mark (Mark) and David Hawkins (David Hawkins) said that to assess the sword in the photos is difficult, as it is very rusty. “He looks like an English broadsword with stone baskets hilt and a flat blade. This form is characteristic of the early types of a cold weapon”, — they said.
the Father of Fionntan contacted Dr Greer Ramsey (Ramsey Greer), which oversees archaeology in the National Museum of Northern Ireland. Ramsey finds out that it was a sword and how old he is.
Earlier it was reported that a resident of Scotland sold at auction was found in the garage of his father’s medieval sword and enriched. Anonymous Scot dismantled the garage after his father’s death and found a rusty 600-year-old the sword in the middle Ages used mercenary soldiers from the Scottish highlands.