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Early Medieval: Incomplete 'cocked hat' sword pommel
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Teresa Gilmore, 2014-01-24 12:46:10
Title
Early Medieval: Incomplete 'cocked hat' sword pommel
Description
English: An incomplete copper alloy sword pommel of Early Medieval dating (c. AD 410 to c. AD 600).

The pommel is a 'cocked hat' type. It is broadly rectangular in plan, with slightly bowed longer edges. The two shorter edges are abraded and each retains the remains of a flat semi-circular lug that enabled the pommel to be secured to the pommel bar by means of rivets. The artefact is pyramidal in outline with concave sides and a small rounded top. The lower surface of the pommel is deeply concave.

It measures 30.7 mm in length, 14.2 mm wide and 14.4 mm tall. The sides are 1.9 mm thick. It weighs 12.6 g.

The pommel is a dark to mid green colour, with an even surface patina.

The 'cocked hat' pommel is an early Anglo-Saxon type, examples of which can be found illustrated in MacGregor & Bolick (1993, 237-38). 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.

Several similar 'cocked hat' pommels have been recorded on the PAS database including: HAMP-6B4136; IOW-8D0815; and IOW-7F8DE6.
Depicted place (County of findspot) West Sussex
Date between 410 and 600
Accession number
FindID: 597267
Old ref: WMID-25F720
Filename: WMID-25F720.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
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/453765
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/453765/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/597267
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Object location50° 56′ 33.72″ N, 0° 38′ 17.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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