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SWORD
Unique ID: KENT-9164C3
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An Early Medieval copper-alloy pommel from a sword dating from the 10th or 11th century. The pommel is moulded in one piece and is broadly crescentic in shape. It has five curved lobes, increasing in height towards the centre. The central lobe is very much larger than the four side lobes, and has a sub- circular perforation to allow it to fit over the tang of the sword. The central lobe is hollow and opens in an oval that would fit over the tang. There are no rivets and the pommel was presumably held in place simply by the hammered tang. Late early-medieval pommels (Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian) were last thoroughly studied by Petersen in 1919. This one is a Petersen L type VI pommel, a fusion of Anglo-Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon fashions. There is a similar example on the database: SF7529.
Length: 25 mm,
Width: 54 mm,
Thickness: 15 mm,
Weight: 51.7 g
Class:
pommel
Sub class: Petersen L type VI
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 900
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25 mm
Width: 54 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight: 51.7 g
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Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Maidstone (District)
To be known as: Leeds
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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