Anglo-Saxon sword pommel

Anglo-Saxon

British Museum

780 - 800

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.

• Medium: gilded silver
• Dimensions: 6 x 10 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £20000 ( Total: £57,350)
• ArtFunded in: 1994
• Vendor: W Stowell

Provenance

Found at Royal Oak Farm, Beckley, Oxfordshire, by the vendor.

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