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Description: | A cast copper-alloy knife handle of Post-Medieval date. It is in the form of a standing female figure with oval shaped face and eyes, and with hands clasped at her waist. She has her hair in a headress and wears a large lozenge shaped necklace. The figure wears what appears to be a dress, or perhaps a separate top and dress, that is decorated with moulded vertical grooves and has sleeves rolled up just above the elbows. Around the waist is a relatively thick belt visible on the back face, with a vertical band of decoration running from the belt down her back to the base of the handle. This has incised chevron decoration contained within an incised border. Beneath the narrow waist the upper half of the costume extends downwards to form moulded decoration that is almost foliate or floral in form, terminating just above a transverse band of decoration containing a row of raised dots. The lower half of the figure shows relatively little decoration other than three vertical grooves at the centre of the front face from which extend possible diagonal grooves. The base of the handle has an oval shaped perforation that would originally have hold in place the iron tang from the knife. The entire object is relatively work, although many of the original features are still visible. It measures 58.51mm in length, 19.53mm in width, 10.51mm in thickness, and weighs 26.96g.This figurine appears to form a handle fro a Post-Medieval knife. Similar examples have been identified through the PAS (see for example NMS-829EE2, BUC-2CF144 or HAMP-2AE5A6), some with possible continental origin, and probably date to the 17th century AD. This example is of similar date, the costume visible on the figure perhaps also hinting at a continental origin or influence.
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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