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Description: | A Post Medieval late 15th - 16th century cast copper alloy end cap from a scale-tang knife in the form of a horse hoof. It is curved through 60 degrees in profile with an oval section. The terminal (foot) is flat with the exception of two raised elements at the rear, and has a groove representing the frog and at least three circular punch marks for the shoe nail holes. There are transverse grooves around the exterior of the object to delineate the lower parts of the horses hoof and fetlock. The blade of the knife is missing, however a short section of a corroded iron tang is present within a rectangular slot at the end opposite the shoe like terminal. The end cap measures 16.4mm in height, 15.1mm in width and 9.3mm in thickness; it weighs 9.26g. The use of a horse's foot is a common type for end caps in the Post Medieval period. Several good examples are found on the PAS database (e.g. SF-388A25, HAMP-462E17 or LON-3D5421), and a good excavated parallel is noted in Egan, 2005: 93, no. 398 from a late 15th - early 16th century context.
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