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Description: | An incomplete iron tang-knife, possibly dating from the Roman period. The knife consists of a largely complete tang-knife blade. Length: 78.9mm. Width: 18.0 mm. Thickness: 4.8mm on the tang. Mass: 12.8g. In plan, the cutting edge and back of the knife are broadly horizontal, but drop and join at the tip. The tang is more or less on the mid-line of the blade. The blade has a triangular cross-section.The blade has a pitted gray surface with uneven brown corrosion evident. On one side of the blade there is a small iron adhesion by the cutting edge (9cmx6cm). This has a broken upper edge and an otherwise pitted grey and brown surface. The knife is largely complete and in good condition for an iron object, with only small portions of the tang, tip and surfaces lost. The knife has a similar form to Manning's Type 14 Romano-British knife (see Manning, 1985, "Catalogue of the Romano-British Iron Tools, Fittings and Weapons in the British Museum, p.115). As such the tang-knife blade may date from the Roman period (AD43-410).
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