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Description: | An Early Early-Medieval (550-650) gold and copper alloy sword pommel, consisting of a copper alloy matrix covered with heavy gold sheet. The gold sheet is missing from one end. One face (which isn't largely obscured by mud) has recent plough damage in the form of a tear.Both faces are decorated with beaded filigree wire in an interlace arrangement. Beaded filigree wire fills the panels to left and right of the smooth upper pommel surface in a vertical linear arrangement, and at the survivng end in a horizontal linear arrangement. Much of the interlace decoration is obscured behind the mud which adheres to the surface, left in place by the finder who did not want to damage the object in any way.The pommel, of so called 'cocked-hat' form, is of a type that can be dated to the late sixth/ early seventh century. It belongs to Menghin's Group E high status pommels of the early 7th century and has a distribution concentrated in Eastern Scandinavia, with outliers in East Anglia and Kent, the Danube headwaters of Frankia and Lombardic Italy (see Treasure Annual Report 1998-1999, p34, number 60, for a more detailed discussion and references for the type). This example can be compared with that from Aldbrough, which apparently differs only in the decoration panels either side of the smooth upper pommel surface. Also compare with LIN-871CD5 and ESS-27D367, the latter of which is only generally similar.Weight with soil: 53gLength (approx): 43.54mmWidth at widest point (approx): 14.68mmDepth (approx): 16.83mm
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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