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Description: | Medieval knife end-cap of sheet folded and butt-jointed into a (slightly squashed) hexagonal sectioned tube, the outer face decorated on the two broad faces with engraved figures, one male and the other female and on three of the four narrow faces within pairs of lines a row of oblique slashes within pairs of lines, and the fourth face a row of chevrons within lines. One end of the tube flares outwards and would have been closed by an additional sheet. The figures are to be viewed with this end upwards. Similar objects have been recorded by the PAS (Northamptonshire no other details, Englefield, Berkshire BERK-D63307, Cerne Abbas, Dorset SOMDOR-B64288 and Shillington, Bedfordshire BH-9BSEC1). A rather more elaborate example on a whittle tanged knife was recovered from a context of the second quarter of the 16th century in Amsterdam (Baart et al.(1977), 332, no. 630). Length 24mm. Present width 15mm at one end and 10mm at the other. 15th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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