Context (Display)
Associated display board with pencil hand-written reads: 'Ixworth Bury St Edmunds 1910
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Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (Related Documents)
Hand-written label attached by string (now removed) reads: '1910 ? Ixworth Bury St E.'
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for Z 27240 [A-G]: 'Assorted hand-guards, chapes and other 17th and 18th century sword fittings. 2 heavy brass hand guards, one marked 'Wilburton, Isle of Ely; 2 iron guards are marked 'Bartlow'; 2 tin fittings, one from scabbard top, the other from top of handle; 2 bronze chapes, Ixworth, 1910.'
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Author: maa

Context (Display)
Brass wire looped through holes in side projections, likely remnants of previous display method. Wire now removed.

Event Date 22/11/2023
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy saddle pommel. Thick walls (6mm) and a domed end; three pierced and pointed attachment tabs project away from the domed section, the central point is longest whilst the two outer points are splayed symmetrically, bending outwards. The exterior, frontal surface of the domed portion and central point is decorated with incised symmetrical patterns.
Event Date 23/11/2023
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (Analysis)
According to the Portable Antiquity Scheme, most examples of saddle pommels are dated to the 16th and 17th centuries, into the early 18th century.
Event Date 7/12/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)