4 0 c m
30cm
actual image size: 22cm x 31cm
Description
sword fragment and hilt (The Abingdon Sword); silver mounts inlaid with niello (Trewhiddle style); the guard features interlacing animal motifs; the ornament on the upper guard represents the symbols of the Evangelists; the pommel incorporates two outward looking animal heads, now fragmentary
Image Details
Date
Late Anglo-Saxon
Accession Number
AN1890.14
Material
pattern welded iron, sheet silver, niello
image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford