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Description: | Circular copper-alloy pommel, 30 mm in diameter and 12 mm thick. These small dimensions indicate that it is probably from a dagger rather than a sword. The top is slightly convex, and originally had a central sub-rectangular hole measuring c.10 x 11 mm. Some of the edges of this slot have now broken away leaving an irregular hole. Around the hole are eight radiating grooves each with a decorative zig-zag line down the base of the groove; the zig-zag appears to have been added after the groove was cast or engraved, and does not result from rocking the engraving tool from side to side. Between the grooves the edge is very slightly outcurved, and is decorated with a straight transverse groove just within the edge. Finer short grooves run inwards from this transverse groove. The reverse of the pommel is tapering and straight-sided (a truncated cone). It is open at the base, leaving a hole of 18 mm in diameter. The only decoration is eight radiating grooves, some rather oblique, again with the same zig-zag on the base. Exact parallels are hard to find, but the pommel probably dates from the 15th century and is related to the 'scent-bottle stopper' pommels described by Ward-Perkins (1940). | Subjects: | pommel | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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