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Description: | A cast copper-alloy post-medieval end-cap from a small knife. Trilobe terminal, below which are projecting ridges on the narrow sides. The object is rectangular in section with rounded corners. There is a central rectangular slot in the base which extends as far as the ridges. Within this slot is iron corrosion which constitutes the remains of the end of the scale-tang knife. On both faces there are punched circles within the three lobes. Given the wear that this object has suffered it is hard to state whether it represents anything. Geake (2001, 76) states that such solid end-caps can come in the form of horses' hooves or stylised fleurs-de-lys and date to the sixteenth century. Other examples of end-caps can be found illustrated in Read (2001, 88; fig. 56).
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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