2 Anglo-Saxon gold sword pommels frm Lincs: Wellingore (http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/68081 …) & Rippingale (http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/642047 …)pic.twitter.com/wVl1W9MdKl
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More gold sword fittings from Market Rasen http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1668892&partId=1&place=39467&plaA=39467-3-2&sortBy=fromDateDesc&page=1 …; gold ingot found there too http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1668889&partId=1&material=18603&view=list&&sortBy=imageName&page=1 …pic.twitter.com/3Q0U1T6AaC
A later example, but also v beautiful---late 9thC Anglo-Saxon sword pommel, from East Anglia? http://metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/476702?rpp=30&pg=1&imgNo=0&tabName=label …pic.twitter.com/AmIrHaA8Qq
A L8thC Anglo-Saxon silver openwork sword pommel, from Woodeaton, Oxfordshire http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/o/openwork_sword_pommel.aspx … H/T @moonlitflitpic.twitter.com/EH2IQmCKGo
@caitlinrgreen :) one of my favourites because when turned upside down it become a bull's headpic.twitter.com/rY6wNWp9Fw
@rosieweetch Oh yes, lol! Fabulous! :)
Another lovely 7thC Anglo-Saxon sword pommel and fittings, Crundale Downs, Kent: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=90972&partId=1&matcult=8832&sortBy=imageName&page=1 …pic.twitter.com/8Mx2jihyc4
@pgoodsir sounds interesting, tho I tend to read little historical fiction :)
@caitlinrgreen Neither do I ;)
@caitlinrgreen @ClerkofOxford My word, this object is breathtaking.
@caitlinrgreen @axamermaid I see your pommel and raise you one tsuba http://bit.ly/1zScc4F
@caitlinrgreen @englishoak That'll be English then.
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