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Description: | Medieval whittle-tang knife end-cap of sheet folded and butt-jointed into a sub-rectangular sectioned tube, the convex broad faces decorated with engraved framed figures, one male and the other female, perhaps saints, but now rather obscured by wear. The narrow faces are engraved with eight transverse lines. One end of the tube flares outwards and is closed by an additional sheet, which is decorated with multiple radial lines and is pierced in the centre with the end of the iron tang. The figures are to be viewed with this end upwards. Cf an example from Hainford. Similar objects have been recorded by the PAS (Northamptonshire, Englefield, Berkshire BERK-D63307, Cerne Abbas, Dorset SOMDOR-B64288 (in lead alloy), Shillington, Bedfordshire BH-9BSEC1), and two from the City of London (LON-D11F23, and LON-AA1F08, lead alloy). A rather more elaborate example on a whittle tanged knife was recovered from a context of the second quarter of the 16th century in Amsterdam (Baart et al.(1977), 332, no. 630). Length 26mm. One end 15 x 11.5mm, the other 10 x 6.5mm. 15th century, although several of the PAS examples are dated to the post-medieval period.
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