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Description: | Copper alloy solid cast incomplete object. A central rectangular loop (13mm x 4mm) has been broken and probably bent apart. At the opposite end to the break is a facetted ?handle, octagonal in section and 20 mm long. On the long edge is a projecting flat axehead shape, with deep notches on the curved outer edge; the back is flat and forms an almost continuous flat plane on this face. There are another four notches on the front of one side of the central element. This object is comparable to a Norfolk find which was identified as a 15th-16th century metalworker's hammer, but subsequent comments on similar items suggest they might be smoking equipment (the hammer element is similar to pipe tampers). However, a database user has pointed out that this object is likely the guard from a sword or dagger. | 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: | 1500
1750 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jude Plouviez | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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