Record ID: IOW-B4598E
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Scandinavian) to Medieval copper-alloy sword pommel (c. 900-c. 1099). The pommel is hollow, broadly triangular in plan and is of 'lobed' form. It consists of five rounded and curved lobes that decrease in size from the central and largest lobe. The central lobe has an aperture at the top through which the tang of the sword passes. On top of three of the lobes is a small circular depression. A fourth lobe may have possessed a depression but its surface is now corroded. The underside of the object has an elongated oval opening whic…
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 11th November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-A53692
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two post-Medieval copper-alloy rings joined together (c. 1800-c. 1900). One ring is misshapen, smaller than the other and is oval in cross-section. The larger ring is pointed-oval in cross-section and is inscribed: SWORD MAKER with crossed swords: (crossed swords) SWORD (crossed swords) MAKER. The words and swords are on both faces. Both rings have the remains of black lacquer or enamel. Outer diameter of large ring: 9.2mm; thickness of large ring: 1.1mm; length of smaller ring: 3.0mm; width of smaller ring: 6.6mm; thickness of smaller ring: 1.0mm. Overall weight: 0.47g. …
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2020
Last updated: Sunday 15th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-FC69E6
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gilded silver sword pommel, sub-rectangular in plan and sub-triangular in side view. It is hollow on the underside, where there are the remains of a corroded iron tang. At each lower corner is a tube (2.9mm in height) for rivets that attached the pommel to the upper guard. One tube is incomplete and the other three retain silver dome-headed rivets. On the pommel's faces, close to each tube, is a small vertical gilded groove. Each pommel shoulder has a raised tongue-shaped feature with a border of punched nielloed triangles. The recessed area around them is gilded. Bot…
Created on: Monday 19th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 17th August 2018
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Record ID: IOW-74F105
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An Early-Medieval silver-gilt sword-ring. c. AD 410 - c. AD 600). Outer diameter of free running ring: 15.0mm; outer diameter of rivet ring head: 14.2mm; overall weight: 7.71g. Treasure case no. 2006 T544. The fitting consists of a free running ring interlocking with an almost closed-up ring head of a "rivet" for attachment to one of the guards of a sword hilt. The free ring, with an outer diameter of 15.0mm, has a tooled decoration within a narrow median groove. Flattened areas around the girth may be the result of hammering, or perhaps, accidental damage in antiquity. Each flat side…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2007
Last updated: Friday 28th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-48B737
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to post-Medieval copper-alloy cross-guard (quillon), possibly from a sword (c. 1400-c. 1650). The terminal of one arm is missing. This cross-guard is straight in plan and curved in side view. It has a central block which is oval in cross-section and has a central vertical rectangular slot to accommodate a tang. The block measures 20. 4mm x 16.0mm. The slot measures 12.1mm x 9.5mm and is 16.8mm in depth. Level with the short side of the slot, and to one side, there is a small projection. The opposite face of the block is flat for a distance of about 20mm ei…
Created on: Sunday 22nd January 2017
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-945A73
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper alloy sword-ring (possibly) of Early Early-Medieval, sixth century date (AD 500 - AD 600). External diameter 23mm, internal diameter 13.5mm, width 6mm. Weight 7.96g. The ring is sub-circular in cross section having a diameter of about 5.0mm (the outer face is slightly flattened). A median circumferential rib on the outer face has repetitive stamped tooling. This decorative rib is flanked on either side by a narrow groove. The object is badly corroded in places and is suffering from bronze disease. A shiny dull green patina with a silvery sheen has survived in places.
Created on: Friday 21st April 2006
Last updated: Sunday 2nd October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-DB4D02
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy sword pommel cap of the 'cocked hat' type (c. 410-c. 720). The pommel cap is pyramidal in form and sub-rectangular in plan. The underside is deeply hollow. At each end there is an integral pierced attachment lug. One lug is larger than the other and slightly off-centre. The hole in each lug has a diameter of c. 1.1mm. This pommel cap is corroded with a patchy matt green patina. There is no indication of decoration or surface treatment. A dark grey stain at one end on the underside may be from organic material. Length: 40.5mm; …
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 1st June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-97EEDB
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and corroded Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy sword pommel cap of the 'cocked hat' type (c. 400-c 600). The cap is sub-rectangular in plan and pyramidal in form with curved upper faces. It is hollow on the underside. The lugs for rivet holes, loops or other means of attachment are lost due to breaks. There is no hole at the apex. This pommel is corroded with patches of a green patina and the breaks are old. There is no indication of any decoration or surface treatment. Height: 11.7mm; width: 34.9mm; thickness: 13.0mm. Weight: 16.28g. The 'cocked …
Created on: Tuesday 23rd June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2015
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Record ID: IOW-8D0815
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy silvered sword pommel cap of the 'cocked hat' type (c. AD 400-c 600). The cap is rectangular in plan and pyramidal in form with sloping corners. It is concave on the underside. At each side the rivet holes are lost due to breaks. Each sloping corner is in the form of a pointed oval groove and each face has several small circular punch marks. One side has a large circular punched dot close to the apex. Due to corrosion, it is unclear whether the opposite side was decorated. This side has transverse rib. The outer face is …
Created on: Wednesday 1st August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-D7C5D2
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Report for H M Coroner Arreton, Isle of Wight: silver-gilt sword-ring and rivet head, c. 450-c. 650 AD (Treasure: 2013 T388; PAS: IOW-D7C5D2) Description: Solid cast partly gilded silver sword-ring interlocking with an almost-closed cast partly gilded penannular silver ring-rivet, which would in turn have been attached to the pommel and upper guard of a sword hilt. The free-running ring, with an outer diameter of 17.08mm, is sub-rectangular in cross-section. On its outer face is a deeply engraved band with a central reserved silver zig-zag in the centre; the opposing triangles a…
Created on: Sunday 16th June 2013
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-49C97E
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy sword of Late Bronze Age date (c. 1000 BC-c. 800 BC). This fragment of a blade is sub-rectangular in plan, lozenge-shaped in cross-section and the blade is possibly stepped either side of the vertical centre-line. However, due to corrosion, it is uncertain whether it is stepped. The blade is corroded and pitted with patches of a green patina on both faces. Each cutting edge is missing and the break at each end is old. Height: 28.8mm; width: 32.4mm; thickness: 8.1mm. Weight: 25.90g.
Created on: Tuesday 27th May 2014
Last updated: Thursday 29th May 2014
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Record ID: IOW-D01F96
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval cast copper-alloy sword pommel (c. 1300-c. 1450). This pommel is circular in plan and sub-rectangular in cross-section. In width, it is slightly narrower at the top than at the bottom. Each face is flat and the edges are bevelled at each side. A rectangular tapering hole extends through the pommel from top to bottom. At the top it measures c. 18.0mm x c. 11.0mm and at the bottom it is c. 12.0mm x c. 8.0mm. Each face is decorated in a similar manner and has been inscribed to form a cross potent. In each of the angles there is a single motif of different design con…
Created on: Sunday 10th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2013
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Record ID: IOW-200DC2
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a silver-gilt sword pommel of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) 6th century date. Treasure case no. 2009 T173. The fragment consists of one side and the adjacent shoulder from one end of a sword pommel; the back is hollow. It is decorated with zoomorphic motifs in Salin's Style I: on the side only a rear limb survives, but on the shoulder there is a complete animal within a panel facing the end of the pommel. There are worn traces of interlocking triangles along the top border of the side, which would originally have been nielloed, and at the end there are the stubs of two lo…
Created on: Tuesday 31st March 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 28th December 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shalfleet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-816837
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy blade fragment of probable Mid - Late Bronze Age (1500 BC-800 BC). The blade is probably from either a sword, a dagger or possibly a dirk. The object is trapezoidal in plan and lozenge-shaped in cross-section. The sides are corroded and both faces are largely covered in a matt khaki green patina. Bronze disease is active. 29.0 x 21.7 x 5.6mm. Weight; 11.02g.
Created on: Sunday 15th August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2011
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Record ID: IOW-FB5A95
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Silver sword ring of Early Early-Medieval date (AD 475 - AD 575). Diameter of ring 14 mm, length of rivet (including head), 23 mm. Treasure case no. BM2005 T300. The fitting consists of a free ring interlocking with the closed-up ring head of a rivet for attachment to one of the guards of a sword hilt; The base of the rivet is burred and the girth of the ring head is decorated with a tooled median ridge with traces of gilding between two grooves. The decoration on the top and back of the head of the rivet is worn away. The free ring appears to have been similarly decorated, but only…
Created on: Wednesday 26th October 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brighstone Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-BEB276
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper alloy guard from the lower part of the handle of a late eighteenth century military sword. Length: 74.5mm; width: 70.6mm and 7.3mm thick. Weight: 61.36g. The object is sub-oval and almost symmetrical in plan and has a raised border on each face. It has a central rectangular opening (17.8mm x 12.1mm) to accommodate a tang. At each side of the narrower part of the opening the upper surface of the guard has been chamfered by filing. One half of the guard is slightly smaller than the other half. The object is in good condition and has a pale to mid-green patina…
Created on: Monday 3rd September 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-1B9464
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy sword blade of Late Bronze Age date (c. 1000 BC – c. 800 BC). Length: 20.0mm; width; 22.9mm; thickness; 6.1mm; weight: 11.77g. The fragment has old breaks at each end and also along one side. Assuming that both edges were similar (prior to being broken), it would have been a flat lozenge shape in cross-section. Although it is corroded, traces of a mid-green patina survive on both faces. This fragment probably belongs to a sword of the Wilburton or Ewart Park phase of metalworking.
Created on: Tuesday 10th February 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-5B8DC6
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy sword or dagger pommel (c. 1350-c. 1500). The pommel is hollow. It is circular in cross-section at the open end but becomes slightly oval at the top end. At the top end there is a sub-circular perforation to accommodate the end of the tang. This end has two opposing moulded decorative projections. All faces are decorated with diagonal grooves in between which there are transverse ridges and grooves with short vertical grooves in between these. There are traces of a mid-green patina interspersed with corrosion products. 28.3 x 32.1 x 18.2mm. We…
Created on: Thursday 21st May 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-4075C1
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Late Bronze Age copper-alloy implement. Possibly a sword blade of Ewart Park type (c. 1000 BC-c. 800 BC). The fragment is possibly the top part (between shoulders). It is lozenge-shaped in cross-section and slightly concave either side of the median midrib. This fragment is pitted and corroded and has areas of a shiny mid-green patina. 43.6 x 28.5 x 3.7mm.Weight: 15.32g.
Created on: Thursday 10th February 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-50ED40
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post-medieval cast copper-alloy object, possibly a sword or dagger pommel (c. 1450-c. 1700). It is circular in plan and roughly oval in cross-section. At the centre is a neat square perforation to accommodate the tang of a blade. Sixteen evenly spaced rounded projections with grooves between them radiate from the centre. On both faces at the centre, surrounding the perforation, there is a circular depression, 13.5mm in diameter. Diameter: 32.9; thickness: 10.3mm. Weight: 47.63g. The surfaces are mainly covered in light green copper-alloy corrosion products. Simil…
Created on: Friday 11th February 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.