One Ottawa man’s backyard home project yielded more than a new patio when his contractor removed a sword from under the earth. The find led home owner Brad Sigouin on a quest to solve the mystery of its origin. While installing concrete piers for a new deck in April 2020, a worker found the weapon and called Sigouin’s phone. “They said, ‘You got to come over here, we found a sword.’ I was like, ‘What?!’” he told The Epoch Times. “He took a picture and sent it to me, and I rushed over right away.” Far from being in mint condition, the sword had a heavily corroded metal scabbard with a rusted decorative guard, and a handle whose leather had completely disintegrated, revealing a metal coil underneath. It looked to be 100 years old. “The mud kind of preserved it,” Sigouin told CBC. Hoping to discover more about the aged …
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