This incredibly rare sword, excavated from an “extraordinary Anglo-Saxon cemetery,” has been ... A significant ring attached to its pommel (the cap at the end of the hilt) may indicate an ...

Found at the site of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, the sword has drawn ... and a symbolic ring attached to its pommel. The sword is just one of several remarkable objects found at the dig site near ...

The early Anglo-Saxon object found in North Norfolk 'looks ... film Dr Geake said they occasionally found a bit of a sword pommel - a fitting at the top of a sword handle - but the mystery object ...

The Norwich inquest also heard how five fragments of the silver-gilt sword handle's pommel, from the 8th Century ... Coroner Jacqueline Lake told how an Anglo-Saxon gold pyramidal mount inlaid ...

The rounded knob at the end of the sword's handle, known as a pommel, also features a ring ... revealing the secrets of an untouched Anglo-Saxon cemetery. The sword is hailed as one of the most ...

In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund ... Was this to "kill" its military potency, as with the swords? Handy WeaponA jeweled pommel cap and rings brightened a hilt of bone or ...