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Description: | A worked bone handle from or scale plate from a scale-tanged knife of probable later Medieval to Post-Medieval date. The handle is sub-rectangular in shape tapering towards the now missing knife end and with a D-shaped section. The knife end is slightly faceted, presumably to enable a better fit to the knife blade itself, and the opposite end of the handle has a rounded finish. The top end of the handle has suffered from exposure above ground and is now porous and pitted, perhaps indicating the remainder of the handle was buried or at least protected in some manner from exposure to the weather. Two small and corroded iron rivets are visible at the centre of either end of the handle to enable attachment to the now missing tang. The bone on the front face is white in colour tunring a darker brown at the edges, and is decorated with incised parallel diagonal grooves that run its entire length. The flat back face is dark brown in colour, possibly the result of iron staining, and undecorated but with numerous transverse tool marks resultant from the production technique. The entire object measures 87.56mm in length, 21.68mm in width, 8.86mm in thickness, and weighs 14.53g. This bone handle is in remarkably good condition. This, combined with its form, perhaps indicates a later Medieval to Post-Medieval date. Similar examples noted from Medieval Norwich (Margeson, 1993: nos. 776, 778) and from Lincolnshire (DENO-80E003) suggest a possible date in the 16th-17th centuries AD or c.1500-1700 AD, if not later.
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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