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Description: | A corroded probably Medieval or Post Medieval cast copper alloy unidentified object. The object consists of a tapering sub-square tube with a sub-square hole through the centre. It has the external appearance of being made up of hollow squares stacked one upon the other that reduce in size in three main steps. The base square is 21.63mm by 21.89mm, the centre step which tapers is on average 19.36mm by 18.06mm whilst the topmost is 17.20mm by 17.24mm. The wall thickness at the base is 5.93mm and at the top 3.51mm. The base square is 6.29mm deep with two evenly spaced deeply incised lines around the full exterior. The object steps down to the tapering centre section which is 8.8mm deep with a single incised line two thirds of the way along. The stepdown to the final square section is a deeper chamferred V shape, the square part of this final section has two incised lines around the full exterior. The most likely identification for the object is that of a sword pommel. However it does not fit into the typology given in the London Museum Medieval Catalogue (1967) p22 and therefore may post date this through into the Late Medieval or Post Medieval period; nonetheless the typology does include examples with a sub-square hole to accommodate the tang of the blade. The object has a mottled green patination that suggests it has some age. No parallels could be found for this object on the PAS database under either sword or dagger pommels but object SF-9181may well be related, but unfortunately it too is unidentified.
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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