News Bulletin Curious find in water

A dog-walker stumbled across an intriguing find while out for a walk in Bosham.

As if taken from the pages of a Tolkien novel, resident Mark Chapman was strolling along Shore Road with his dog on Sunday, October 10 when he spied the curious item ‘glistening in the water’.

After wading in to retrieve the mysterious metal, Mr Chapman said he thought it looked like it could be an 19th century cutlass or even a Saxon short sword.

“It’s got a handle and what looks like a blade and it’s about 22” so it could be a short sword. It could be a 19th century cutlass or just a piece of iron which fell off a boat,” he said.