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Summary
| BUC-FA09D7 Silver sword hilt ring | |||
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Buckinghamshire County Museum, Ros Tyrrell, 2010-11-26 12:02:16 |
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| Title |
BUC-FA09D7 Silver sword hilt ring |
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| Description |
English: Silver ring from a sword pommel. It is flat on both faces but decorated only one, with a broad groove within which is a counter-relief line of raised ovals which all have a fine longitudinal groove scored along their length. The ring has a rounded inner and outer edge. There is some greenish copper corrosion on the inside of the perforation suggesting that there is some copper in the alloy.
Sword-rings were attached to the pommels of high-status swords. Different decoration on the two faces is paralleled elsewhere (e.g. a gilded silver ring from Barham, Kent; Treasure Annual Report 1998/9, no. 54). The earliest sword-rings date from the second half of the fifth century, and they continued in use until at least the middle of the seventh; they were most common in rich Kentish graves of the sixth century. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Northamptonshire | ||
| Date | between 600 and 900 | ||
| Accession number |
FindID: 417678 Old ref: BUC-FA09D7 Filename: 2010 T000.jpg |
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| Source |
https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/306527 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/306527/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/417678 |
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| current | 09:13, 6 February 2017 | | 894 × 1,398 (236 KB) | Fæ | Portable Antiquities Scheme, BUC, FindID: 417678, early medieval, page 9343, batch primary count 88565 |
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