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Description: | The copper-alloy incomplete handle/case of a folding or pivot iron knife (the iron knife is now missing), 67mm in length and 14mm in width. One side of the terminal has survived better than the other, which is more fragmentary but identical (only this better perserved terminal will therefore be described). The complete terminal is shaped like the side profile of an animals head and neck. It has a slightly upturned knop for a snout and an oval-shaped head, the eye is a circular rivet, placed in the centre of a raised downwards pointing tear-drop shape which has been decorated by diagonal grooves. This 'eye,' rivet is in the centre of the head and would have held the two halfs of the handle together, the mouth is a slightly sloping slit. The head tapers into a long slender neck, 32mm in length, this neck is decorated with longditudinal grooves with two transverse grooves in its centre, the decoration on the neck tapers to a point. On the inside edge of the neck there is a rectangular-shaped protrusion at a 45 degree angle from the neck. After the neck of the animal there is a step and a 23mm flat rectangular-shaped part it has one small rivet in its centre near to the decorated neck of the animal and a parallel hole for another is visible at the broken end. On the back faces of the handle, which would have fitted either side of a blade, iron corrosion is visible, this is all that remains of the original iron blade. This folding knife is likely to be 17th century in date due to its style and decoration.
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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