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Description: | A copper-alloy hound from a Roman hound and hare folding knife handle, the rest of the handle is now missing due to old breaks. The hound is incomplete as its legs are fragmentary due to old very worn breaks. Most of the original dark brown patinated surface is also missing as the majority of the hound is a light green colour due to corrosion products. The hound is depicted in side profile and is running. The head is smal and ears flat against the head. The remains of a tail curling upwards survives. Also on one area of the original surface vertical presumably decorative grooves can be seen. The hound measures 45.91mm in length, 13.23mm in height and is 4.70mm in thickness.
Other hound and hare knife handles have been discovered at Hitcham, Suffolk (see SF-9D6625) as well as from Freckenham, Suffolk, (see SF4895). There is a published example in Richborough 4 (Bushe Fox 1949, plate XXXV1, no 118). | 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
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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