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/* Methods of attaching the Pommel */
===Methods of attaching the Pommel===
Two main Geibig has categorised three methods of attaching hilt construction as described by Androshchuk [ANDROSHCHUK 2016:p.187-188].<br> ====Tang goes through the upper guard and pommel to the rest of the ====Sword types: B, Sp2.<br>This hilt fittings seem to have been deployedof these swords in constructed in two parts with a separate pommel sitting atop an upper guard. <br>The tang passes straight through the grip, upper guard and pommel and is then simply peened over.  ====Tang goes through the upper guard. Pommel riveted to an upper guard====Sword types: Sp1, H, K, N.<br>The pommel is hilt of these swords in constructed in two partswith a separate pommel sitting atop an upper guard. <br>The tang passes through the upper guard and is then peened over. The separate pommel is then attached by two more rivets that are peened over under the upper guard.  ====directly to Tang goes through the grippommel or upper guard====Sword types: X, Y.<br>The hilt of these swords has either a pommel or an upper guard.<br>The tang passes straight through the grip and pommel , or grip and upper guard, and is then simply peened over.
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===Hilt Materials===
====Hilt fittings of iron====