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Description: | Copper alloy Brazil Nut type sword pommel. The object is generally pointed oval in shape, has a flat, curved upper surface, convex faces and sides and is hollow. Both faces bear the same incised crude zoomorphic decoration. On each face at the top of the object in the centre there are two parallel incised curved lines. From either side of these lines extend incised zoomorphic designs, probably birds, each the mirror of the other. The animals are formed by two incised lines extending vertically down from the curved lines. The lines then curve towards the sides of the object then back up again before continuing to form the neck of the animal. The heads are generally squared-off and the creatures appear to have beaks or bills. The eyes are represented by incised sub-oval lines. Before the bodies of the creatures begin to curve they are linked by two parallel lateral lines, and a second pair of incised lateral lines join the animals to the edge of the object as they curve back upwards. There are two pairs of parallel incised grooves on the bodies of the animals, one pair just below the head and the second on the main, vertical element of the bodies. Crude zoomorphic decoration is common on this type of pommel. There are apertures in the top and bottom of the object, now damaged so that parts of the body of the object are missing. There is also a small sub-circular aperture in one side of the object where the object is also cracked. The pommel has a generally mid green patina. Some remains of the iron tang survive. The tang was an extension of the blade which would have passed through the hilt to attach the pommel to the whole sword. Many pommels of this type were filled with molten iron or lead to counterbalance the blade, as the hollow interior of this example suggest. | 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: | 1001
1300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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