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Friday, April 16, 2021

Mother-daughter duo believes they found centuries-old pirate sword in small North Carolina town

LINCOLNTON, N.C. (WJZY)- In downtown Lincolnton, two blocks from Main Street, in a building that once housed the local Free Masons, a sharp secret was hidden in plain sight. 

When Dr. Ashley Oliphant and her mother, Beth Yarbrough, asked to see an old sword that used to hang on a wall, they unlocked a mystery two centuries in the making. 

“The iron scabbard of that sword did have an inscription on it,” said Oliphant, a college professor at Pfeiffer University.