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Description: | A very corroded iron possible blade of a folding knife possibly of Anglo-Saxon date, the outline of which is very reminescent of the outline of a Gabor Thomas type A strap end with animal head terminal. It measures 65.89mm in total length and the wider end is 20.8mm in width, it tapers to 8.7mm in width at the other end, it is 6.6mm in thickness and none of the original surface seems to survive. The wider end has a V-shaped notch in the centre of its edge and there is an irregular hole throught this end which may be original or due to wear.
Although there are no published parallels for such folding knifes a complete example has been found in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, see SF-FB1EC4, this example had a cast copper-alloy handle with the corroded iron blade within it. It was 70mm in length, 22mm in width and 6mm in thickness. The handle was decorated on both faces with openwork holes and the terminal depicted the small head of a mouse- or bat-like creature, with moulded oval ears, a protruding brow and a tapering snout. This terminal and indeed the overall shape of the handle was very similar to late 8th- to 10th-century strap ends of Thomas's type A. | 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: | 700
1000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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