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Description: | Incomplete copper-alloy openwork knife handle of 'hare and hound' type. The attachment end for the blade is rectangular, 13 mm deep, and decorated with perhaps two transverse ridges right next to the blade and another pair next to the hound's tail. The attachment end was originally a flat socket, but one half of it has now broken away. One copper-alloy rivet survives on the lower edge of the socket, and there is possibly a second very well concealed rivet at the top. The knife handle begins with the curled-up tail of the hound, which joins onto the attachment socket along with a base line which runs to the hind leg of the hound and is then broken. The hound's body is slender (probably a greyhound or similar) and it has a short broken-off foreleg. The head is long and has three ridges, which seems one too many (one for the ears and one for the brow would give a better appearance). The rest of the handle is missing and the breaks are all old and worn. Surviving length 41 mm. The small knife handles are unusual and interesting Roman finds. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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