Scottish history enthusiast and metal detectorist Craig Johnstone had worked out that woods near Penicuik were probably an escape route from a 1666 battle and he went to see what he could find. Did ...

Three foot Samurai swords, a triple mace ball flail and a curved scythe are among the 533 weapons handed in to police in the New Forest. It comes as Hampshire and Dorset officers took part in the ...

Over 350 items could be removed from a Coventry collection of historical and artistic artefacts. The objects include a partial human skeleton, a medieval knife and a "tiny milking stool" that was used ...

Italian anthropologists have documented a remarkable case in which a Medieval-era Italian male not only managed to survive the amputation of his right hand, he also used a bladed weapon as a ...