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Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) Sword Pommel. Treasure case no. 2009 T173
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Isle of Wight Council, Frank Basford, 2009-12-08 17:45:58
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Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) Sword Pommel. Treasure case no. 2009 T173
Description
English: Fragment of a silver-gilt sword pommel of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) 6th century date. Treasure case no. 2009 T173.

The fragment consists of one side and the adjacent shoulder from one end of a sword pommel; the back is hollow. It is decorated with zoomorphic motifs in Salin's Style I: on the side only a rear limb survives, but on the shoulder there is a complete animal within a panel facing the end of the pommel. There are worn traces of interlocking triangles along the top border of the side, which would originally have been nielloed, and at the end there are the stubs of two loops for rivets to attach the pommel to the upper guard.

The pommel appears from what survives to belong to Menghin's 6th-century, Brighthampton-Ciply type, which has a widespread distribution from southern England to northern France, Germany and Scandinavia (W. Menghin, 1983, Das Schwert im Frühen Mittelalter, Stuttgart, 135, 309-11, map 2).

21.0 x 11.7mm. Weight: 4.30g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Isle of Wight
Date between 500 and 600
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FindID: 251148
Old ref: IOW-200DC2
Filename: 2009 T173.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
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Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/231878/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/251148
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