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Description: | Knife handle fragment. Length 17mm, width 11mm, thickness 1mm. The artefacts is oval in plan with a flat base, there is a slot in the centre that is shape like a long thin isosceles triangle (7mm by 3mm).
The artefact is in a poor condition with corrosion stripping away most of the original surface, particularly along the edges, resulting is a light green slightly powdery surface.
This is a sheet copper alloy plate that would have been the front plate of a tanged knife handle. There would have been an organic handle, probably bone or wood, mounted on a knife tang, this would have a copper alloy plate on the front and back, all of which would have formed the handle. Tanged knifes that have a copper alloy plate one either end of the handle are more common in the 12th-14th century, which is the probable date for this object. | 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: | 1100
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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