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Description: | A fragment of the handle of a copper-alloy folding knife of the ??hound and hare?? type. It is 41mm long, 4mm wide and 16mm high.
The hound is lurching forwards and the hindquarters of its body are missing. Its head is angular and the triangular ears are flat and point backwards. All detail of the facial features is worn away. The pointed face is attached to the tail of the hare and its front legs are attached to the rear legs of the hare. The oval body of the hare is angled downwards to give the effect that it is running away from the hound. Both front and rear legs are no the ground with a flat strip the spans between that hares lags that represents ground. The head of the hare is missing but the is a large rectangular raised area covering most of the body that represents the hares ears. There is a groove running down the middle of the hare from front to back that would have been the recess for the blade (about 1 mm wide, and the thickness of the metal on either side is 1mm). The groove could continue down the hound but as the artefact is so encrusted with mud it is difficult to tell.
Any evidence for the blade is missing. There is a dark green patina on the majority of the object, however, some some areas are encrusted with mud.
There are two examples on the database NARC981 and NARC134. | Subjects: | Folding Zoomorphic | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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