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Description: | The knife appears to be a whittle tang type as the tang slightly protrudes from handle. The tang is iron. The handle is a cast copper alloy shell. Between the tang and shell there appears to be wood. The copper alloy shell is an oval shape in cross-section until the upper terminal of the handle which becomes a petal shape with a rounded base. The terminal of the handle is also curved. The handle is decorated with a draped female figure on each of the wide faces, bordered by three vertical linear grooves. On the narrow face of the handle there are also two linear vertical grooves. The upper face of the handle has been decorated with a row of vertical lines, a row of oblique lines, and final a row if vertical lines within a incised border. On one face the handle has cracked at an oblique angle. The handle has a mid green patina.
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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