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Description: | 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 is larger than the four side lobes, and has a rectangular perforation to allow it to fit over the tang of the sword. The perforation is filled with both iron corrosion and a grit deposit. The thickness of the pommel is 3mm. 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 | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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