Amateur detectorists found a cache of medieval weaponry near the village of Wielka Tymawa in Poland. They discovered a two-handed sword, or rather a hand-and-a-half sword, and two axe heads from the ...

The items are now housed in a museum built in a former castle for the knights of the Teutonic Order. Screengrab from Muzeum W Ostródzie's Facebook post History enthusiasts using metal detectors in ...

One can imagine that a sword large enough that it required two hands to swing about in battle could get rather tedious to lug around medieval-era Poland. As such, one could also understand some poor ...