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Description: | A copper alloy object, possibly an end cap from a knife or dagger of Post-Medieval date. The cap is approximately rectangular in shape with flattened edges that give it an almost hexagonal section. The terminal end is rounded and flattened, with a projecting knop to one side. In the centre of the cap is a rectangular hole within which is a transverse copper alloy bar of the same thickness as the cap and measuring only 0.70mm in height. At either side of this hole are three rivet holes that dissect the cap, arranged in the shape of a triangle. The blade is now missing, but a short rectangular slot at the opposite end of the cap to the terminal indicates where it would have been attached. The cap measures 13mm in height, 27.26mm in width, 4.41mm in thickness, and weighs 6.23g. No good parallel for this example could be identified, however, Read (1995: 124-125) comments on the use of copper alloy end caps of various types that begin to appear in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Given the shape of this example, it is possible that it too belongs to this group of end caps and would thus date to a similar period.
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