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Description: | A complete Roman knife handle; made of copper alloy and iron in an openwork design depicting a hare and a hound. The handle is complete and depicts a stylized hound catching a running hare, on a solid bar which has a longitudinal slot in its underside, into which the knife blade would have fitted. The animals have long limbs and the hound has his snout on the hare's tail. The hare has long triangular ears which are laid back against its head. The hound and hare are of equal size.
The butt has broken off just behind the hounds? hind leg, only a short length of the tail remains. These breaks are worn. There is evidence of the original iron blade in the form of iron corrosion product within the longitudinal slot. The metal surface is an even dark greenish-grey colour.
This form of folding knife is relatively common and the representation of the hunt is a common theme on a variety of other forms of Roman material culture, particularly in the 4th century. There is a published example in Richborough 4 (Bushe-Fox 1949, plate XXXVI no. 118). Several examples have been recorded by the PAS, see BUC-676896 for a more complete example. | 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: | 300
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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