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Description: | Copper alloy knife handle with part of iron blade remaining. The handle is highly decorative and was once inlaid with shell panels, two of which survive. The handle is roughly rectangular in section with narrow top and bottom panels decorated with an incised waved design. The flat shell side panels would have been mounted over a copper alloy framework with two hollow rectangular areas separated by a central bar and fixed by copper alloy rivets. Between the handle and the blade there are two raised ridges either side of an engraved rectangular section decorated with foliage on all sides. The blade is very corroded and broken after 38mm of its length. The handle terminates in a carved copper alloy knop in the form of a stylised male bust with exaggerated nose and chin-length hair. | 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: | 1600
1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Eleanor Ghey | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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