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Description: | Small and rather crudely decorated silver sword pyramid. The base measures 13 x 12 mm and has the usual flat bar, 2 mm wide and running parallel to the shorter side of the pyramid. Inside the pyramid is some coppery corrosion. Each of the four faces has engraved geometric decoration within a single-line border, a different pattern on each face; the small square panel on the top has a saltire and no border. The engraved lines are narrow but appear to have contained a dark inlay, perhaps niello; they seem now to be rather worn. The pyramid is 6.5 mm tall. The use of these pyramids is uncertain at present, but they were probably some kind of scabbard fitting. They date to the first half of the seventh century AD.
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