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Description: | Post medieval copper alloy saddle pommel of 16th or 17th century dateThe pommel is near-complete, with damaged attachment lugs (with a length of 69.7mm and a weight of 41.9g) and is of two-piece construction, now separated but would have been soldered across its midsection. The domed pommel is hollow and of oval section (with a diameter of 33.1mm x 31.0mm, an internal diameter of 29.5mm x 27.5mm and is 1-2mm thick). The sides are straight and near-parallel to the undulating base. There was a double attachment hole for rivets near the base and there would have been a lug on each side, now broken. The more-complete lug has broken through one of the two attachment holes. The pommel is decorated with pairs of parallel grooved lines, diagonally arranged.The surface has small remnants of a dark-green patina, and elsewhere there are areas of pale blue-green corrosion and red-brown surface loss.The pommel can be broadly paralleled with examples recorded by PAS from Glynneath, Neath-Port Talbot[1] and Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire[2] and an example published by Read (1988, p 127-8, no. 808)[3] recovered from Bicton in Devon. [1] NMWPA 2010.266.1[2] NMWPA 2012.19[3] Read, B.; 1988; History Beneath our Feet
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