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Description: | Incomplete rectangular drop handle with lug and animal-head terminal. The handle has two transverse mouldings in the centre, and is broken to one side of these (very slightly worn break). The lower right-angled corner has a projection sticking out at 45 degrees, with a moulded collar on one face. The handle has an oval or sub-rectangular section, 7 x 5.5 mm along the broken lower edge but tapering on the side towards the upper corner and again after the corner to the animal-head terminal. The upper right-angled corner has no projection. Just beyond this corner, between it and the terminal, is a handle lug; 4 mm thick, rounded and internally worn, it has a projecting collar on the two narrower faces and an integral rivet 4 mm long behind. The animal-head terminal is separately cast and has a hole for the handle running right through to the mouth. It is oval in section, 13 x 10 mm, and has two oblique depressions for ears behind a groove which runs around three sides of the head. Beyond this is another depression which runs around the top of the head and forms the nose. The open jaws are delineated by two oblique grooves on either side.
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