The knife handle figure, discovered in the River Tyne near Corbridge in Northumberland, is thought to have been bought as a souvenir.

A 2,000-year-old Roman knife handle shaped like a gladiator that was discovered in northern England will go on public display for the first time, the charity English Heritage said on Friday. Two divers found the well-preserved object in 1997 in the River Tyne at Corbridge near Hadrian's Wall,

A rare Roman knife handle cast in the shape of a gladiator discovered at a Northumberland Hadrian's Wall site could be evidence that gladiators were huge celebrities on the northern edge of the ancient empire.