model(pommel);
sword
- Museum number
- 1988,0302.1
- Description
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Model for casting sword-pommel; lead; long boat-shaped; hump-backed; hollow; upper part: chip-carved Style I animal ornament on both sides in high relief with animal heads at each end; stands on plinth with side panels of running scrolls.
- Production date
- 450-550
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.80 centimetres
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Length: 9.30 centimetres
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Width: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See B.M. Ager, “A lead model for a late 5th- or early 6th-century sword-pommel”, Medieval Archaeology, 50 (2006), 243-249.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Slightly damaged.
- Acquisition date
- 1988
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1988,0302.1