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Description: | Solid copper-alloy end-cap from a knife handle. The end-cap is pointed oval in cross-section and perhaps roughly rectangular when viewed from the side. Halfway along one edge a moulded ridge begins with a short projection; this moulding continues down either face, petering out in the higher centre and reappearing close to the other edge. It curves so that when it reaches the other edge (it does not project) it is closer to the junction with the iron tang. Beyond this moulding, the end-cap ends in four ridges which radiate from the beginning of the curved ridge and end in small projections, giving a zig-zag effect to the end of the knife. At the other end, by the junction with the tang, is a pair of transverse engraved lines with oblique lines between them; long engraved V shapes extend from the rear of these lines towards the ridges. All of the engraved decoration is very worn. This is a very idiosyncratically decorated end-cap, and perhaps dates to the late medieval period. Length of end-cap, 22 mm; total length with fragment of iron tang, 25.5 mm. | 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: | 1400
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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