File:Early Medieval cast cu-alloy sword pommel (FindID 181872).jpg
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[edit]| Early Medieval cast cu-alloy sword pommel | |||
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Lancashire County Council, Dot Boughton, 2007-06-01 10:55:20 |
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Early Medieval cast cu-alloy sword pommel |
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| Description |
English: Cast copper-alloy sword pommel of the hollow cast 'lobed' type. It is an elongated oval in plan (i.e. viewed from below) with two opposing faces that are subtriangular. It is semicircular in cross-section. The slot for the handle is oval. It consists of five curved lobes, all of them hollow, increasing in height towards the centre. The central lobe is very much larger than the four side lobes, and has a oval perforation, ca.5/7mm in Length, to allow it to fit over the tang of the sword. There is some damage around the perforation and some loss of surface. The perforation then flares out to become an oval hollow. There are no rivets left and the pommel was presumably held in place mainly by the hammered tang. However, there is a flat crescent-shaped 'cut-out' at the base of each end, possibly to help adjusting/fixing the pommel with rivets or similar.
Late early-medieval pommels (Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian) were last thoroughly studied by Petersen in 1919. This one is a Petersen L type VI pommel, a fusion of Anglo-Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon fashions, and dates to the 10th or 11th century. This style of sword pommel is illustrated in K. Siddorn's 'Viking Weapons & Warfare', 2000, page 73, figure 37, ref no 10. Additionally, there are two similar examples illustrated in John Blair's 'Anglo Saxon Oxfordshire', 1994, page 98, fig 59. One of them was found in the Thames at Ten Foot Bridge, Chimney, Oxfordshire and the other found in the Thames at Wallingford Bridge. Both examples are also dated to the 9th/ 10th century AD. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Lancashire | ||
| Date | between 900 and 1100 | ||
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FindID: 181872 Old ref: LANCUM-FF48A2 Filename: BFMDCOLythamPommel1ad.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/140117 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/140117/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/181872 |
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