File:Early Early-Medieval sword pommel cap (FindID 496331).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(5,464 × 3,903 pixels, file size: 1.83 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Early Early-Medieval sword pommel cap
Photographer
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Katie Hinds, 2012-03-30 15:27:16
Title
Early Early-Medieval sword pommel cap
Description
English: An incomplete Early Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy silvered sword pommel cap of 'cocked hat' type, missing its rivets and measuring 35.14x10.72x15.56mm. It weighs 14.46g.

It is rectangular in plan and pyramidal in outline with concave sides and a flattened apex. The underside of the cap is hollow (max.25.88x7.28mm). At either end of the base, angled slightly into the concave sides, is a piercing 2.26mm in diameter.

The pommel is decorated on one face with three punched double-ring-and-dot motifs, two being rather more double-semicircles as they flank the bottom edge. On the other face is a central punched double-ring-and-dot with a line of circular punches flanking the edges of the face. Both concave sides are decorated with two punched double-ring-and-dots, arranged rather more towards the apex, and on one side, one double-ring-and-dot has been punched over part of its neighbouring double-ring-and-dot.

Silvering is apparent on all faces, and is only really missing around the edges of the object.

MacGregor and Bolick (1993, 237) explain that copper-alloy pommel caps are fairly regular embellishments on Anglo-Saxon swords. Often the pommel, often of an organic material, has not survived, but the perforated lugs at either end of the pommel cap, as seen in this example, show that it was riveted to the pommel. The pommel caps were therefore to secure the pommel and to form a decorative terminal and had no role in counterbalancing the weight of the blade as they are light in weight. It is probably fifth or sixth century in date.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hampshire
Date between 400 and 600
Accession number
FindID: 496331
Old ref: WILT-5C2531
Filename: WILT-5C2531.jpg
Credit line
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
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/376191
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/376191/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/496331
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License

Licensing

[edit]
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Attribution: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current02:53, 3 February 2017Thumbnail for version as of 02:53, 3 February 20175,464 × 3,903 (1.83 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, WILT, FindID: 496331, early medieval, page 6091, batch primary count 30031

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Early_Early-Medieval_sword_pommel_cap_(FindID_496331).jpg&oldid=500108869"