English: Copper-alloy lower guard or quillon from a dagger or possibly a very small sword. It has a central oval perforation for the tang to pass through. Seen from above, looking down through the hole, it is an elongated oval, but with squared ends. On the underside the hole flares out to become a long and thin pointed oval, to accommodate the top of a double-edged blade. On the top the hole is a more rounded, short and wide oval, to accommodate the tang. Dark grey patina. Length 46mm, height 12.16mm, thickness 11.76mm, weight 13.5g.

Most dagger guards of this type are long and thin in side view; compare YORYM-E8D9F2, WMID-BBEC88, SF-BDCB85, YORYM-11276E and SUSS-A6ADE2. This one, however, has a tall centre and sloping sides, reflecting the flared shape of the central hole. The sloping ends turn upwards slightly at their squared-off, vertical ends. It therefore resembles an early Anglo-Saxon cocked-hat sword pommel in shape. A function as a pommel, however, is impossible; the shape of the central hole, to accommodate the blade at the lower end, shows that it must be a quillon (also called a lower guard).

There is no similar item on the PAS database, but the shape of the central perforation (oval at one end, elongated pointed-oval at the other) is matched among later medieval dagger quillons; see the examples cited above. A medieval date is therefore probable.