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Description: | Chunky copper-alloy pommel from a sword. The base of the pommel is curved and it has five curved lobes, increasing in height towards the centre. The central lobe has a circular perforation, 6 mm in diameter, to allow it to fit over the tang of the sword; there are hammer marks around the perforation where the tang has been hammered down to fix it in place. The perforation then flares out to become an oval hollow; only the side lobes are completely solid, and the undersides of these are neatly filed smooth and flat. The pommel is in good condition with no obvious wear. There are no rivets and the pommel was presumably held in place simply by the hammered tang. Late early-medieval pommels (Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian) were last thoroughly studied by Petersen in 1919. This one is a Petersen L type VI pommel, a fusion of Anglo-Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon fashions, and dates to the 10th or 11th century. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 900
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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