The metal blades and wooden toy swords were unearthed during an excavation of a Roman cavalry barrack at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologist Dr Andrew Birley said the finds were like ...

a Roman cavalry fort along Hadrian’s wall in Northumberland, England, reports the BBC. Among the artifacts are two rare cavalry swords and two wooden toy swords, similar to those still made today.

"The toy swords are evocative ... Vindolanda was built in the late first century A.D., before Hadrian's Wall was constructed in A.D. 122 to consolidate the border between the Roman Empire and ...

Another sword and two small wooden toy swords were also found in adjacent ... picture of life on the edge of empire before Hadrian’s Wall was built.” The artifacts date to around 120 A.D ...

The metal blades and wooden toy swords were unearthed during an excavation of a Roman cavalry barrack at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologist Dr Andrew Birley said the finds were like ...