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Description: | A cast copper alloy end cap from a sixteenth century knife. The end cap is hexagonal in section and with a flat terminal. The faces of each side may well have been decorated, however this is now no longer visible. At the attachment end a short rectangular section of the iron tang remains visible within a rectangular slot. The end cap measures 20.40mm in length, 13.09mmm in width, and weighs 12.77g.For discussion of Post-Medieval knife end caps see Read, 1995: 124-125. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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