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St Ninians Isle Treasure

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St Ninians Isle Treasure

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Photo Number

SL00255

Title

St Ninians Isle Treasure

Date Of Photo

Aug 1965

Description

Pommel 11 Mount 14 Mount 13 Mount 12
These cone-shaped mounts have been described as 'belt buttons' for sword belts. They are heavily worn at the top and have some damage and wear on their base plates, evidence that helps suggest their use.
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?

Parish

Dunrossness

Collection

Photographer

British Museum

Access Level

Public

Source File Name

31136_3.jpg

Subjects

Subjects > Archaeological and Historical > Finds

Subjects > Archaeological and Historical > Excavations > St Ninian's Isle

Subjects > Archaeological and Historical > Sites > St Ninian's Isle