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Description: | End-cap from a knife handle. It is just a rectangular piece of thick copper-alloy sheet with a rectangular hole set centrally to accommodate a rivet, and it curves more strongly than usual; but this simple object would have been set over the curved end of the knife handle and given a substantial iron rivet with a decorative pyramidal head to provide a neat finish. Usually these end-caps taper slightly to mirror the wedge-shaped cross-section of the handle, but although the edges are corroded this one does not appear to taper. 14th century. | Subjects: | end cap | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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