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Description: | A sheet copper alloy rove from a late medieval or post-medieval knife handle. The rove is tear drop-shaped and measures 23.4mm by 14.3mm by 0.8mm. It weighs 1.32g. It would have formed part of a whittle-tang knife handle constructed from a series of roves (some of which might have been made from other metals and/or materials) extending along part of much of its length. Part of a handle of such construction with a similar sub-oval cross-section can be seen in Egan's 'Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition' (2005, pp. 94-5, no. 415).
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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