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Sword with silver cocked-hat pommel with scroll decoration and traces of niello. The pattern-welded blade has sloping shoulders and a pointed tip, though is parallel-sided; overall length, 935 mm (approx); width at top, 55 mm; width towards point, 55 mm. The pattern-welding is indistinct, but may consist of a ground ring pattern. There is no fuller visible. There are traces of a tape binding round the mouth of the scabbard at the top of the blade; height, 127 mm. A furrow 14 mm wide across the scabbard at the base of the binding may have been left by a strap. Only the flat, copper-alloy lower plate of the upper guard survives, which is lentoid with rounded ends; length, 60 mm; width, 20 mm (max); thickness, 2 mm. Also only the copper-alloy lower plate of the lower guard remains, which is lentoid and almost complete, but with one pointed end broken and traces of iron rivets; length, 90 mm surviving (originally about 93 mm); width, 21 mm; thickness, 2 mm. The the grip is approximately 92 mm long. The pommel is of hollow, cocked-hat shape, with the end of the tang projecting through a hole in the top; length, 48 mm; height, 16 mm; width at base, 15 mm. The shoulders are concave. Both side panels are decorated with different patterns of incised scrollwork with a plain border on one side, and a nielloed zigzag along the base and sides and a central, hollow triangle enclosed by running scrolls on the other, which is rather worn. The scrolls on the unworn side have median grooves, which appear to be absent on the worn side. Both ends of the pommel are damaged, each with a dummy rivet-tube on either side cast in one piece with the pommel and set between two grooves. The shoulders are decorated with plain-bordered, tapering panels of nine horizontal ribs. The x-radiograph shows a knife about 145 mm long at an angle underneath the blade, one end 70 mm below the lower guard of the sword.
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