Archeological Finding

[rasdan]

Hi guys,

Yesterday I contacted a friend (Raja Kamarazaman - in facebook) that is an metal detecting enthusiast regarding his keris related find. He had recently found another keris hilt with gold pendongkok. Interestingly, the pendongkok is probably the gold Bugis pendongkok we normally see on gold encrusted Bugis keris, however the hilt is wood and looks almost Javanese - what we know as Jogja hilt nowadays. Have you seen earlier specimens of keris outside of Jawa that uses this type of hilt? Or probably this is actually a Jawa keris? I also attached pictures of the earlier pendongkok that had found - that have rubies in them.