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Description: | Cast copper alloy one-piece decorative saddle pommel. Only two thirds of the pommel remain as the area where the rivet holes would have been has been sheared off, leaving only half of the central rivet hole at the end of the pommel. There may have been two other wings at either side with rivet holes in them, but these have been broken off if they existed. There are two bands of engraved linear decoration running along the length of the pommel at a diagonal from the pointed end of the pommel, where there is a protruding knop, to the engraved band crossing the width of the pommel at the opposite end, just before the rivet hole, and to the engraved border line at the base of the pommel.
The pommel would have been riveted onto a wooden protrusion on the front of the frame of the saddle, to which the reins could then be secured. Saddles were wooden framed and leather clad at this time in order to support a man in full armour.
Read (1995) illustrates a similar example on p.128, No.809, which he dates to the 16th or 17th centuries. | 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: | 1500
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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