Record ID: LIN-871CD5
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold and copper alloy sword pommel. The pommel consists of a copper alloy matrix covered with heavy gold sheet. Both faces are decorated with beaded filigree wire, as are the rectangular panels on the left and right hand sides of the upper pommel surface. One face shows fair amounts of damage caused before it was discovered. A pair of copper alloy rivets remains in position at either end of the pommel. The pommel, of so called 'cocked-hat' form is of a type that can be dated to the first half of the seventh century. It belongs to Menghin's Group E high status pommels of the early 7t…
Created on: Thursday 10th June 2004
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellingore Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-B8C216
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold sheet pommel composed of two highly stylised animals with a shared body. The pommel, which is high profiled and thin in cross-section, is made of five pieces of thick gold sheet. Two make up a double-skinned core into which the end of the tang fitted. Onto this core are soldered three smaller sheets. Two are moulded to form stylised heads with punched holes for the eyes, while a third arches over the underlying core and forms a shared body. The five sheets were originally soldered to each other and the joins between them are covered with a variety of beaded, twisted and…
Created on: Monday 13th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 13th October 2014
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Record ID: BM-5FCB75
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon hilt fittings: pommel, upper and lower hilt fittings, part of upper guard, part of lower guard Gold sheet, gold filigree wire, cabochon garnets, copper-alloy, lead Early seventh century The pommel is of ‘cocked hat’ form and is made of gold sheet, decorated with filigree wire, over a lead forma.   The two faces of the pommel are filled with zoomorphic interlace in triple strand interlace, made with one broad band of beaded wire flanked by borders of a very fine beaded wire.   Each face is filled with a balanced design of interlacing zoomor…
Created on: Wednesday 24th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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