Late 2nd millennium BC. A bronze sword hilt with crescent-shaped guard to accept blade, square-section grip with central rib to two sides and four evenly-spaced studs to the other two, and a conical hollow-cast mushroom pommel pierced on three sides. Cf. Khorasani, M. M. Arms and Armor from Iran: The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, T??bingen, 2006, pp.393-4 for type. 485 grams, 16.5cm (6 1/2"). Property of a Guernsey collector; acquired in the UK in the early 1990s.