Sentence examples for sword mount from inspiring English sources

Volunteers have worked on beautiful garnet-and-gold jewellery, a gilt bronze buckle and sword mount strikingly like the Staffordshire hoard which caused world wide excitement last year, amber and glass jewellery, pots and jars, and two cow-horn shaped Frankish drinking glasses buried at either side of their proud owner's head.

An "exceptionally rare" silver sword mount has been declared treasure.

Archaeologists and historians have been studying more than 3,500 pieces, which include twisted crosses with Latin inscriptions apparently wrenched as booty from gospels or torn from the shafts of processional crosses, helmet and sword mounts and shield bosses, belt ends and buckles, studded with gems and intricately interlaced ornament.

"The Genius of Japanese Lacquer: Masterworks by Shibata Zeshin," an exhibition of more than 75 works by the 19th-century artist, who was known for creating exquisitely detailed lacquered boxes, panels and sword mounts, as well as traditional ink painting on silk and paper, will be on display from March 21 through June 15.

Swords are included in the crafts category, and either the sword itself or a sword mounting is designated as a National Treasure.

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They also left the authors of the books in the position of prisoners buried to the neck in a Roman arena as the champion charioteer, with swords mounted on his hubcaps, demonstrated his mastery of the giant slalom.

Other isolated finds include a gold object from Dalmeny, shaped like a truncated pyramid, with filigree and garnet, similar to sword harness mounts found at Sutton Hoo.

According to the Bǫglunga sǫgur (Bagler sagas), the young king then took a sword and mounted it to Haakon's side, and handed him a shield.

These sword-less mounted infantrymen galloped over the plain, riding towards the town and a redoubt supported by entrenchments, on a mound of Tel es Saba south-east of Beersheba.

Trouble over holy sites has sparked more than one revolt in Palestine's history.In this section Tough, but bowing Hard choices To have and to hold The sword unsheathed A mount of troubles Shaking the kaleidoscope ReprintsIsrael conquered the Temple Mount with the rest of East Jerusalem in 1967.