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Description: | Complete Early Medieval cast copper alloy pommel cap of 'Cocked hat' type. The pommel cap is sub rectangular in plan and pyramidical in outline. The pommel cap is hollow with slightly concave sides; there are no traces of decoration. To either end of the pommel cap are a horizontal pair of circular lugs with circular perforations for riveting the cap to the wooden (or other material) of the pommel. None of the rivets survive. The object is worn but the original surface survives with an even mid green patina. There is some damage to one end on the upper surface by one set of lugs and to one side face of the cap; otherwise it survives in good condition. The pommel cap is 14.08mm high, 38.6mm wide, 12.46mm thick and weighs 16.44g. Similar pommel caps can be seen in MacGregor and Bolick, 1993, A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections in the Ashmolean Museum, numbers 46.1-46.4. It is likely to date to the sixth century AD. | 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: | 500
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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