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Description: | Knife handle terminating in a rather crudely worked animal head, probably a feline. The head sits on a grooved moulding, below which the shaft of the handle is decorated with two bands of incised lozenges formed from lines with dots at the junctions. The lower end tapers to a slot for the blade. A closely similar handle, with the iron blade intact, was recovered from the bed of the Walbrook in London (Manning 1985, 110 and pl53, Q3).On the Walbrook kinife the head resembles that of a dog, though it is decorated with spots, while the lozenge motifs on the shaft are formed of incised lines with small raised knobs at the junctions; the lozenges are further divided into two triangles, of which one is filled with partially impressed rings. That is dated to the 1st or 2nd century. | 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: | 100
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | David Williams | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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