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Description: | Early Medieval cast copper-alloy sword pommel. The pommel is trapezoid in plan. There is a rectangular central section, with a rectangular slot (which apears to contain iron corrosion) running through its length. On opposing sides of the central block are triangular projections which are covered in vertical grooves. The base is plain and undecroated. The pommel has a dark brown patina, with light green around the edges.The finder comments: The centre appears to have traces of silvering and a black substance - niello perhaps. The artefact measures approximately 48mm x 14mm x 6mm, and it weighs (according to our kitchen scales) one ounce.A similar pommel has been recorded on this database from Cambridgeshire as SF7865, although the Cambridgeshire example is more elaborate and has zoomorphic terminals.Two similar pommels of Menghin's Holmegard-Kragehul type have been recorded on the PAS database, at NMS-C48232 and WMID-916283; also compare YORYM-4B4B66.
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