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Description: | Early post-Medieval cast copper alloy knife handle end-cap (terminal/pommel), 16th century. This appears to be in the form of a 'claw' hammer head, but it is possibly a stylised dog's head. The stop is oval in plan with a circular-sectioned projection from one end (the hammer striking face), and a pointed projection from the other end, with a short groove along the sloping top - forming the 'claw'. There is a central rectangular slot in the base, containing the remains of the end of the iron scale-tang knife. Length 10.22mm, width 16.3mm, thickness 6.9mm, weight 4.19g.For parallels see Read's 'Metal Artefacts of Antiquity' (2001), p 83, fig 57, no.s 663 & 664.See PAS records BH-F0AC81, NLM-AB5E34, SOM-C5D891, DOR-0725A6, IOW-AE8CA3 for similar end-caps. Geake (Finds Recording Guide, 2001, 76) states that such solid end-caps can come in the form of horses' hooves or stylised fleurs-de-lys and date to the sixteenth century.
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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