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Description: | Copper-alloy lower guard from a Viking Age sword, with interlace decoration on both sides. The decoration plates were originally gilded, and approximately half of this gilding has survived.
The shape of the object, when viewed from above, is an elongated oval. The object has a hole through its centre (top to bottom). This hole is widest at the base (65.2mm), where the blade would have been inserted, and narrows to 32mm at the top, where the sword handle would have projected.
The overall dimensions of the object are 98.4mm long, by 20.3mm wide at the mid point, by 13.3mm thick (ie, height from top to bottom as it would have sat on the sword). It weighs 79.45g.
The piece was examined by James Graham-Campbell and Leslie Webster at the British Museum. It was considered to be 10th-century in date. Irregularities in the interlace decoration suggest that it is Anglo-Scandinavian, rather than a true Danish piece, as had originally been thought. No exact parallels could be found. | Subjects: | Guard | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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