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English: Cast copper alloy Knife pommel diameter 31mm, height 20mm, weight 69.21g. The top of the pommel is domed (9mm high) with a rectangular slot in the centre (about 8mm long) where the tang would have passed through, this area is encrusted with iron corrosion. There are for grooved lines (1mm deep with a V shaped base) radiating out from the slot. At the end of each of the angles the edges of the rim has been turned up order to form four petals, this results in the pommel having a square shape when viewed from the top. The rectangular slot in the centre is at a slight angle to the four petals and radiating lines.

The sides coming down from the rim are concave (13mm high), the base is circular with a diameter of 24mm. On the inside of the pommel is a cylindrical hollow (internal diameter 19mm) with strait sidewalls and a domed ceiling that has the tang slot in the centre. There is an iron rod that passes 8mm through the slot, this is the remains of the iron tang.

Mid green patina with much of its original surface remaining.

Pommels such as typical of the 15th century and are represented on effigies and brasses such as the knife on the brass of Sir Symon Felbrig at Falbrigg, Norfolk (44-45, 1967, Ward-Perkins), or the sword on the brass of John Hadresham at Lingfield, Surrey (27, 1967, Ward-Perkins) which both date to the early 15th century. Nevertheless, this style of pommel was used until the early 16th century.