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Description: | A hollow cast copper-alloy pommel from a dagger of Post-Medieval date. It is oval shaped in plan and conical in profile with flattened top and bottom edges. The top face has four sets of deeply incised but short double grooves spaced evenly around the exterior edge and linked together by a single incised groove that forms a lozenge shaped motif at the centre of the upper surface. This gives the impression that the pommel is quatrefoil in form with projecting semi-circular lobes on each exterior edge. This motif is further enhanced through the presence of incised diagonal grooves that run from the incised double grooves on the upper surface to the base of the pommel. These diagonal grooves meet an incised circumferential broder at the base of the pommel. The object has a hollow back face and a sub-circular perforation is also visible at the centre of the lozenge shaped motif on the upper surface. These perforations would have originally held in place the tang of the dagger. The entire object measures 31.14mm in length, 27.55mm in width, 17.55mm in height, and weighs 49.68g.Similar dagger pommels, possibly from quillon daggers, are noted on the PAS database (see for example SUSS-8583A0, IOW-8C3FD7, HAMP-C77613 or IOW-B0CCC2) and published in Read (1995: no. 497). These indicate a probable later Medieval to early Post-Medieval date for the current example, perhaps dating to between the later-15th and 16th centuries AD.
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