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St Ninians Isle Treasure
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St Ninians Isle Treasure
Aug 1965
Pommel 11
A pommel was a head to a sword hilt. Its purpose was to prevent the sword from slipping from the user's hand. This pommel is decorated with interlaced Pictish beasts. Could this pommel have belonged to the same sword as one of the two chapes discovered?
  • Dunrossness
  • British Museum
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