A SWORD, discovered in the basement of Castle Green House nearly 30 years ago, has been returned to Cardigan Castle.

Land surveyor Dean McNeil Jones was working at the castle as a young man in 1990 undertaking the Ove Arup survey of the then derelict buildings.

While he was in East Wing he noticed a hole in one of the partition boards that had been constructed by the army in the Second World War.

“I looked in and saw this sword just placed against the wall. I was only 19 at the time and it seemed like a great find!” he recalled this week.

Dean took the metal sword outside and showed it to castle owner Miss Wood who was living in a caravan in the grounds.

“She told me to keep it so I took it home,” he said.

The sword remained in Dean’s Cardiff home and it was only when he was looking in the attic earlier this year that he came across it.

“To be honest I’d forgotten all about it, but when I found it I felt it should come back to the castle,” he said.

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