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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy knife handle of Roman date. This piece comes from a 'hare and hound' type folding knife handle, an example of which was found in excavations at Richborough, Kent (Bushe-Fox; 1949; pp.129). Other examples can be seen on the P.A.S database - for example, SF-32AEB7 from Laxfield in Suffolk and NMS-328581 from East Winch in Norfolk.
The three-dimensional object is decorated on all sides. The animal is heavily stylised, with a slender but angular body. The neck is elongated and has two ridge-like collars. The head has a central ridge and comes to a point at the nose. The eyes are depicted through the use of ring-and-dot punch marks the ears (possibly) by two parallel, transverse indentations. At around the mid point of the body is a moulded band and there are three further ring-and-dot punch marks on each side of the animal. The tail is depicted by a small crescentic moulding. The back legs are moulded as one angular projection and there are no feet shown. The upper and lower legs (shown as a single moulding) of the front quarters are set at ninety degrees to each other, the lower leg extending forwards under the head. At the tip of the front leg are two small, downward-pointing prongs separated by a central void; this represents the point at which the hare was originally attached.
The artefact measures 48.9mm long by 13.2mm high and 5.3mm wide; it weighs 10.3g. | Subjects: | Handle | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Watters, Julian - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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