A wheel pommel is a flat disc, often with a raised boss at the centre, fixed to the end of the tang. It balances a straight blade closer to the hand and gives an engraver a clean round field to work on. It is the single most common pommel of the high medieval period, which is why so many of these look right immediately.
Discs and the blades under them
Wheelbright is the plain one, thirty eight inches overall with a brass wheel pommel, a pale leather grip and a straight crossguard. Bluewake is the same length with a blued fullered blade and a black leather scabbard. Whorlcrown pairs a wheel pommel with a triskele on a thirty eight inch blade and a tooled tan scabbard with belt loops. Stonecleave runs a curved crossguard over a rune engraved fuller with a black scabbard. Wheelbraid is the Damascus one, thirty six inches overall with a steel wheel pommel, a brown leather grip and a knotwork cut ricasso. Cairnbrand is the Norse entry, a rune engraved blade with a dark leather grip.
They sit in arming swords, with the Norse blades in Viking swords and the layered ones in Damascus swords.
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Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
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Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
