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Description: | A pewter dagger or sword pommel fragment. The fragment is from the front of a rounded pommel. It has a flat face and rounded sides. There is a slot at the base where the tang would have fitted. There is some evidence for a similar slot at the top, but the edges are badly damaged and the size cannot be determined. The face of the pommel is decorated with a circular panel with a cross hatched background containing a spotted animal of uncertain species. It has two visible legs, a pointed tail, forward pricked ears and a short snout. Its spots are represented with punched dots. It may be a mythical animal as the legs are quite bird like, but the face is more mammalian. The central panel occupies all of the flat face. The rounded sides are decorated with concentric bands divided into triangles and further decorated with short nicks. The pommel is 38.4mm long, 36.2mm wide and 14.3mm thick. Many pommels are illustrated in Ward Perkins' (1940) London Museum Medieval Catalogue, but no close parallel has been found, so a precise date cannot be determined.
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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