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Description: | Gold and copper alloy sword pommel. The pommel consists of a copper alloy matrix covered with heavy gold sheet. Both faces are decorated with beaded filigree wire, as are the rectangular panels on the left and right hand sides of the upper pommel surface. One face shows fair amounts of damage caused before it was discovered. A pair of copper alloy rivets remains in position at either end of the pommel.The pommel, of so called 'cocked-hat' form is of a type that can be dated to the first half of the seventh century. It belongs to Menghin's Group E high status pommels of the early 7th century and has a distribution concentrated in Eastern Scandinavia, with outliers in East Anglia and Kent, the Danube headwaters of Frankia and Lombardic Italy (see Treasure Annual Report 1998-1999, p34, number 60, for a more detailed discussion and references for the type). The Wellingore Area example can be compared with another recent find from Aldbrough. Although the Aldbrough example is slightly more elaborate, the basic designs are the same (Treasure Annual Report 1998-1999, p34, number 60). Other recent comparable finds come from Ludlow and now in the Shrewsbury Museum, and the other a seax pommel found near Maxstoke Priory, near Birmingham and acquired by the British Museum in 1996 (BM 1996,0112.0).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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