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Description: | A copper alloy knife handle terminal which is probably from a late medieval or early post medieval scale tanged knife. The terminal is trilobed with a narrow bar beneath the lobes. Each lobe is hollowed in the centre on both sides, but is not quite pierced. Underneath the decorated area, the terminal forms a narrower rectangular shape which is also rectangular in section, with a slot through the centre which is filled by iron, presumably the end of the tang. There is a mass of ferrous corrosion round the base of the object. The copper alloy part has a deep brownish green patina. A similar knife handle terminal can be seen on page 95 of "Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition" by Egan (2005), and has been dated to the late fifteenth or sixteenth century. It is also possible that this object could be the handle terminal from a key, perhaps of Roman date, but this interpretation would be more convincing if the handle was pierced for suspension, and if the attachment was circular instead of rectangular.
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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