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Description: | Cast copper-alloy 'hilt-plate' from a knife, which serves as one end of the handle. It is 17 mm long and the sides curve out very slightly to a central maximum of 9 mm wide. It has a central perforation, a long sub-rectangle or oval, for the tang to pass through. On one face there is a V-shaped notch cut below the perforation into which the butt end of the blade (either the cutting edge or the back of the blade) could fit. It probably dates to the 15th century or first half of the 16th; after this, knives were made with a 'bolster' - a forged thickening between blade and handle which made the hilt-plate obsolete. | 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
1550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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