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Anglo-Saxon sword pommel
Artist: Anglo-Saxon
Location: British Museum
Date: 780 - 800
Materials: gilded silver
Dimensions: 6 x 10 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £20,000 (Total: £57,350)
Vendor: W Stowell
Review number: 4053 (1994)
Provenance:
Found at Royal Oak Farm, Beckley, Oxfordshire, by the vendor.
Description:
Sword pommel cast in two pieces riveted together. It is decorated on both sides with openwork friezes of animal heads, and with complex designs of interlacing animals, plant scrolls and knotwork.
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