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Description: | A possibly Roman or early medieval copper-alloy knife handle for which no published parallel could be found. The handle is solid and in plan it is rectangular and curving slightly, it is triangular in section, it becomes thinner towards the inner edge. It measures 41.02mm in length and 15.34mm in width and is 7.75mm in thickness. Both faces and the wider outer face are decorated with longitudinal moldings, there are also traces of transverse grooves across these moldings. Projecting from the terminal end of the narrower inner edge there is a rounded projection, which resembles flaring nostrils with a deep punched ring and dot motif in either side, and decorative grooves. At the tang end of the handle it steps into a wider rectangular part with transverse moldings, rather than longitudinal ones. There is corroded iron staining adhering to this end and a corroded fragment of the knifes iron tang projects from it.
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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