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Description: | An unusual cast copper alloy and iron mount/terminal probably from a knife with an iron tang, it bears a female double-faced head. Measuring 22.5mm in height, 14mm wide (from ear to ear) and 17mm in thickness (from nose to nose).
The base of this object is an oval disc measuring 14mm by 11.5mm and 5mm in thickness it has a circumferential groove. Within the underside of this is iron corrosion from a central iron shank. Above this oval disc are the heads, there is no neck. The back of the two heads are fused and there is a groove between them. The two outward looking faces are now worn but look identical. Each has loosely gathered hair with a central parting, arched eyebrows, oval shaped eyes, a slightly projecting nose and a small mouth. The faces are heart shaped with tapering chins.
This object is Roman in date and a very similar mount/terminal has been found at Hartest, Suffolk (see SF-6944). Ralph Jackson of the British Museum believes that these examples are similar to one from Richborough (Bushe Fox 1949, fourth report, plate XLV), which has an integral copper alloy handle, and is one of a series of distinctive knives highlighted by Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann in her Gotter und Lararien aus Augusta Raurica (Forschungen in Augst 26, Augst, 1998), 32-35, figs. 9-11. Where iron blades survive they are Manning's Type 1. He would date the knife series to the 1st - 2nd century AD and the Suffolk examples are likely to be of a similar date. | 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
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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