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Description: | An inscribed copper alloy sword pommel, of 'wheel' type (Ward Perkins 1940, 22 fig. 1 type VIII). The pommel is hollow and circular with a slightly flattened lower edge. It is widest around the circumference with a flat circular face of smaller diameter on each side. There is a rectangular hole on the lower edge where the pommel would have been attached to the hilt, and another smaller rectangular hole (the edges of which are unevenly broken) at the top edge, where the top of the hilt is likely to have stopped. This type of pommel was common in the thirteenth to fifteenth century. The size would suggest use on a sword rather than a dagger.
Each flat circular face has an engraved design in a circular border of indentations. Each side has three letters below a horizontal line with scrolled corners and a central cross pattee above. One side reads XHC (Jesus Christ) and the other IPC (possibly personal initials). | 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: | 1300
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jennifer Moss | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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