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Description: | End-cap from a knife handle, consisting of two rectangular pieces of copper-alloy sheet sandwiched around the remains of a 4 mm thick iron tang. The copper-alloy sheets measure 14 x 17 mm, and have some scratched or engraved decoration. On one side this appears to be four parallel and slightly oblique lines with zig-zag between the central pair, and on the other side is a possible shield with central vertical line. The iron protrudes slightly around three sides of the copper alloy; it is very corroded, as the object does not react to a magnet. End-caps usually have an oval cross-section to match the rounded handle, but there is a small group of flat ones known from perhaps the late medieval and early post-medieval periods. The decoration suggests a medieval date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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