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Originally Posted by Peter Hudson
3.The Anglo-Saxon swords recovered from archaeological digs seem to show lots of signs of wear. Many of the pommels are worn on one side, and this indicates that when the weapons were worn high up on the chest in scabbards attached to shoulder-slung leather baldrics, the warriors tended to rest their hands on the pommels.
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It should be noted that there is an alternate explanation for the wear patterns on the pommels, as argued by Roland Warzecha in
this video.