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Old 12-05-2005, 10:54 AM
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saxon gold sword pommel

hi, was surfing the net last night for metal inlay pics and found a website with pictures of metal detected relics in england. i sent the link to JL. this morning i found another picture which looks like a complete pommel. anyone up to making one?

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Old 12-05-2005, 11:59 AM
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Well, not in gold! that's far to rich for me. Or for anyone likely buy one of my blades for the foreseeable future

However, In have been planning to add lost-wax cast bronze fittings to some of my stuff. And a sword or two is still of in the wings. So I figure I'll send a link to this off to my wife (she is the artist that does the wax carving in our artistic partnership.) I think she would enjoy something like that. Now if only you had the matching cross-guard.

Could you send me the link for the metal detector finds as well?


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Old 12-05-2005, 12:22 PM
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I bet that's some kind of mechanical gilding over iron...

I have an engraving of that somewhere...


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Old 12-05-2005, 12:53 PM
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the earlier photo does appear to have iron on 4 spots that i see,but i think it looks more like a piece of chased sheet gold over a base of iron. here is the photo of a found piece and link to website.

http://www.colchestertreasurehunting...golddagger.htm

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Yes... "damascened," in the parlance of the historian.


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That penny sure is an odd companion.


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That penny sure is an odd companion.
Dada art.....
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That penny sure is an odd companion.

Maybe the detectorist doesn't work for scale.....(hey! Smitty how about a rim shot?)


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Old 12-05-2005, 04:35 PM
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Cool find Shak!


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Penny for your thoughts...
He was just adding in his $0.02...but got distracted mid-thought.


I used to have reference book someone scanned in for me that was in Sweedish, but it got erased/lost and I can't remember who I got it from, or what the title was. It had lots of pics of blades, fittings, partial scabbards and all sorts of neat stuff!


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I was just watching Hidden Treasure on one of the History channels, last night. The show was about an Iron Age British sword hilt that a detectorist found. Much like the examples on this thread. In fact the hilt he found was more complete then the one found with the Sutton Ho sword.

I think the treasure act is a benefit to both metal detectorists and historians. It is certainly expanding our knowledge of Iron Age swords.


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