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Description: | Curator's ReportAn Anglo-Saxon silver, parcel gilt, pyramidal mount, presumably from a sword scabbard. Dates from the late 6th to 7th century AD.Description of findEach side of the pyramid is decorated with two chip-carved standing triangles, with a small, hanging one, in between them. The ridges separating them are decorated with incised lines and the triangles themselves are gilt. A rectangular, deep cell in the apex of the pyramid still contains some soil but is otherwise empty; originally, it would have contained a setting, perhaps a garnet. The pyramid is hollow and the original transverse bar for attachment has broken off, leaving only two opposing stumps behind. Green corrosion traces on the outer faces and inside the body of the pyramid.DiscussionSword pyramids are small fittings used to fixate a strap holding a sword scabbard to the belt. They are now relatively common finds, some 11 having been published in Treasure Aannual Reports between 1998 and 2004, as they were apparently very prone to loss. The present piece is particularly close in appearance to Flixton, North Yorks. (TAR 2002, no. 57A), which however was also niello-inlaid and gilt around the lower edge; and Headbourne Worthy, Hants. (TAR 2003, no. 116), with further close parallels known from Kent, Suffolk and East Yorkshire (TAR 2003, p. 85). They are also wide-spread on the Continent, usually made from silver or copper alloy (Menghin, 1983, map 22).
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