File:206 Medieval dagger pommel bottom (FindID 71851).jpg

English: Knife pommel

  15th to early 16th century 

  32mm diameter, 21mm tall

  

  The top of the pommel is domed (8mm high) with a rectangular slot in the centre (8mm long, 5mm wide) where the tang would have passed through.  There are for grooved lines (1mm deep with a V shaped base) radiating out from the slot.  There is a group of small grooves chipped into adjacent angles.  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) with a circular base 23mm diameter.  There are four grooved line that runs down the side at a 50 angle running anticlockwise, each of these lines are attached to one of the four lines on the top.  All the linear decoration is chip carved. 

  The inside of the pommel is a cylindrical hollow (internal diameter 19mm) with strait sided walls and a domed ceiling, the walls start off at 2mm thick at the base, are 9mm thick at the rim and 4mm thick where the slot is in the top. 

  

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, there are similar examples that date to early 16th century such as a German on a boar sword (95, 1967, Wilkinson).