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Description: | A cast copper-alloy End-cap (terminal) from a scale-tang knife of Early Post-Medieval date. It measures 13.17x15.19x7.41mm, weighs 5.2g and is in the form of a horse's lower foot. It curves to one side and has an oval cross-section, 11.12x7.41mm at the join with the (missing) iron blade and 12.62x6.10mm at the end of the foot.The foot is flat apart from a pair of raised elements at the rear. These have a groove infront of them and a transverse groove dividing them, which runs the length of the underside of the foot. The frog is denoted by a triangular groove. Around this are six circular punches, three one each side, representing shoe nails. There are grooves and raised ribs around the object to delineate the hoof, the pastern (which is slightly waisted), and the lower fetlock above this.There is ferrous corrosion in the slot at the other end of the terminal indicative of an iron tang. The horse's foot is a common form for end caps, with illustrated examples in copper-alloy (e.g. this database, reference HESH-EBB148, HAMP-462E17, IOW-E15D67) and bone (e.g. Crummy 1988, 74-75; ref. 3084). Compare also Crummy (1988, 75-76; ref. 3101) for a close parallel of uncertain material. The metal of this artefact is a red-brown colour with lighter areas of corrosion product
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