File:Early Medieval sword pommel from Lowick, Northants (front) (FindID 414364).jpg

English: Gilded silver sword pommel with remains of the iron tang blocking its underside. The centre is steeply humped, with a central half-oval filled with net-like chip-carved interlace which is not expertly drawn; on one face it leans distinctly over to one side. On the top are a pair of small high-relief back-to-back animal heads, again with the centre not at the top of the pommel; one head is bigger than the other, but they are otherwise very similar with hollow comma-shaped ears and long oval eye-sockets, within which are indentations which probably (by analogy with the other larger animal heads) originally held inlaid glass eyes. The shoulders of the pommel each have big animal heads with hollow circular nostrils, deep brow-ridges over eyes inlaid with dark (perhaps blue) glass, and long upright hollow comma-shaped ears whose tips appear to disappear into the smaller animals' mouths. The large animals are very three-dimensional and it is possible that if the pommel was cleaned there would be a perforation within the pommel behind the ears. The whole of the edge of the pommel has a border of a roll-moulding decorated with oblique grooves to resemble a twisted wire; at one point this is missing, apparently sliced off. Length 52.5 mm, height 29 mm, thickness 15 mm (the latter two measurements include some iron corrosion). It weighs 36.2g.

A good parallel is the pommel from the River Thames at Chiswick Eyot (Webster and Backhouse (eds) 1991, no. 181) which dates to the late 8th century. The Chiswick Eyot pommel does not have the inlay to the eyes, but this is known from many other items of broadly similar date: the early 9th-century sword NMS-C152F8, several 9th-century strap-ends (such as SWYOR-7A8CF5 and CAM-D83AA1) and the 7th-century figurine YORYM-024D31.