length, and through the tenon have been drilled two small holes, one from each side, for pins to attach the pommel to the handle. A small part of the pommel which was broken off in old times seems to have been united to the main body by a series of minute gold rivets or clips, but this piece has… … Fig. 284.— Hammeldon Down. ; A small object of amber, apparently the pommel of a diminutive dagger, was found in a barrow at Winterbourn Stoke,* Wilts. A small knife or scraper, mounted in a handle formed of two pieces of amber, secured by two rivets and bound with four strips of gold, is also…
Bronze age -- Great Britain · Bronze age -- Ireland · Great Britain -- Antiquities
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