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Description: | Copper-alloy cap (terminal) from a scale-tang knife of post-medieval date (c. 17th century). The terminal is in the form of a horse's lower foot. It is curved with an oval cross-section. The foot is flat apart from a pair of raised elements at the rear representing the calkins. The frog is denoted by a triangular groove. Around this are six circular punches (three on one side, two on the other, and one centered) representing shoe nails. There are grooves around the object to delineate the hoof, the pastern (which is slightly waisted), and the lower fetlock above this. There is no obvious traces of ferrous corrosion in the slot at the other end of the terminal which indicates an iron tang.The horse's foot is a common form for end caps, with illustrated examples in copper-alloy (e.g. this database, reference IOW-E15D67) and bone (e.g. Crummy 1988, 74-75; ref. 3084). Compare also Crummy (1988, 75-76; ref. 3101) for a close parallel of uncertain material. The metal of this artefact is a red-brown colour with lighter areas of corrosion product, in green and off white. There is also a comparative example offered by Egan (2005, 92-93; ref. 398).
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