The sword's length indicates they were cavalry weapons used by warriors on horseback, according to Smithsonian Magazine. They were shorter than the Roman gladius used by foot soldiers and had ...

This is emphatically demonstrated by the Ukrainians' adoption of an ancient Roman invention in their ... Great's army used them to thwart Persian cavalry, as reported by Forbes magazine.

Following painstaking conservation and reassembly of broken parts it is now the centrepiece of the Roman gallery in Lancaster City Museum, part of Lancashire County Museum Service.