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Description: | An incomplete Roman copper-alloy open work hare and hound knife handle. The hare is complete and the back legs of the hound and the slot below it are missing due to old breaks. It measures 52mm in surviving length and 14mm in width.
The hare is c17mm in length, with long triangular ears laid back against its head. There is an openwork roughly circular hole beneath the hare and the straight horizontal bar it is running along. The hound is larger and seems to be running at full pelt with its front legs stretched forwards and its ears laid flat back. There is another open work perforation inbetween the hares back legs and the hounds chest. The horizontal bar they are both running along is incomplete due to old breaks and has a longitudinal slot in it's underside, into which the knife blade would have fitted.
Another fragment of a hare and hound knife handle has been discovered at Hitcham (see SF-9D6625) as well as from Freckenham, Suffolk, (see SF4895). There is a published example in Richborough 4 (Bushe Fox 1949, plate XXXV1, no 118). | 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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