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AN00021093_001_l. Iron, upper end of sword-blade + down-curved guard; 2 nielloed silver bands + dotted animals & foliage on tang; triangular pommel. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered…

AN00166035_001_l. Iron pattern-welded sword blade; remains of wooden grip; T-shaped pommel; in two pieces, with one bag of fragments. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the…

Sword-pommel; silver-gilt. Late 8th century, of Anglo-Saxon or Pictish origin. If Pictish, it represents an adaptation of a typically Anglo-Saxon design. Front and rear are identical in their pattern, made up of elaborately interlaced, speckled…

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1890.14. Late 9th/early 10th century. Iron sword fragment and hilt, silver mounts inlaid with niello. High status weapon. Pommel originally featured two animal heads at each end, with protruding ears and round eyes…

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1909.518. Silver and gold. Mid 8th century. Sword-pommel, base silver core with applied silver sheet and one surviving gold filigree panel. Arched panel consists of a vine of twisted gold wire with clusters of grapes…