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Description: | Iron knife with scale tang and bone scale plates, one missing, the other incomplete, fixed by two iron pins. The apparently integral terminal of the tang is domed in plan and expanded on either side to act as a stop for the bone plates. The surviving plate is decorated with incised cross-hacthing (down the left hand edge) and herringbone pattern (over the remainder) - part of the plate is broken off but present. The handle is incomplete, broken a few mm before the shoulder. Length 62.08mm, width 19.0mm, thickness 13.6mm including pins, thickness 8.8mm not including pins, weight 15.44g (main part 14.79g, plate fragment 0.65g).
Scale tangs were introduced in the 13th or 14th century, and possibly continued as late as the 17th century (see Margeson, 1993, "Norwhich Households", Norwich Survey, p128) | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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