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Title: bronze head?? Post by: mickycoin "mick" on May 19, 2009, 09:12:23 PM another find from last year gower area, again uncertain to what it is??
Title: Re: bronze head?? Post by: The Doc on May 19, 2009, 09:17:49 PM Not sure what that is.
Title: Re: bronze head?? Post by: waltonbasinman on May 19, 2009, 09:33:53 PM Bleeding Hell Mick that is a puzzler.
Title: Re: bronze head?? Post by: romano-brit on May 20, 2009, 04:26:05 AM looks like sum sort of belt slide to me?
Title: Re: bronze head?? Post by: Charles Cater on May 20, 2009, 05:59:01 PM It definately is some sor of belt buckle. The tongue might have been made of iron and rusted away in antiquity. No size given, would help in future Mick?
Title: Re: bronze head?? Post by: altinkum on May 20, 2009, 06:10:05 PM i seen something similar on another forum it look's like a sword pommel. check out chainmail in one of the recent th mag's. he found a celtic sword pommel
Title: Re: bronze head?? Post by: DIGGA on May 20, 2009, 09:07:01 PM NO IDEA MICK LOVELY LITTLE FIND THO DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE AGE OF IT IS ROUGHLY ?????
Title: Re: bronze head?? Post by: viking on May 20, 2009, 09:38:38 PM nice find but havnt a clue to what it is ???
Title: Re: bronze head?? Post by: Beefy (GARETH) on May 20, 2009, 10:10:51 PM it looks like a crash helmet for a dwarf lol
Title: Re: bronze head?? Post by: hedgehog on May 21, 2009, 11:19:02 AM i seen something similar on another forum it look's like a sword pommel. check out chainmail in one of the recent th mag's. he found a celtic sword pommel I was thinking pommel Mike but the bar at the bottom doesn't make sense, it is definitely a pommel shape, good i.d. Title: Re: bronze head?? Post by: mickycoin "mick" on May 21, 2009, 12:06:41 PM hi all , and thanks for the joint effort in the i.d. i would go along with the belt slide or fitting sounds good to me, the date was given around 1400, forgot to mention earlier that there are signs of red ennamel on it thank you all mick
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