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Description: | Part of a pair of Post Medieval scissors: fragment of finger-loop offset from arm which ends in a broken angled hinge. The arm is highly decorated, with square-section bosses and engraved probably foliar ornament on two faces. The engraving continues onto the sides of the hinge. The inside of the latter is iron-stained and contains a slot for the blade. A transverse hole at the break would have held the spindle. Length >38mm. | 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: | 1540
1900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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