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Description: | Part of a medieval or post medieval set of iron shears. The single-edged iron blade has a short section of the tang remaining. The shape of the blade where it meets the tang is semi circular and suggests that this could be one blade from a pair of shears. It is 182.82mm long, 31.2mm wide, and 6mm thick. It weighs 89.56gm. Similar medieval shears can be seen in Knives and Scabbards by Cowgill et al, and a complete pair on the database is LON-0DA665. However, this very functional object type continued to be used into the post medieval and modern periods, so a firm date cannot be attributed from this partial example.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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