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Description: | A cast, copper alloy knife end cap in the shape of a horses hoof. It is oval in shape and slightly curved from the tang fitting to the end. The end is flat and is decorated with a line of seven circular, punched depressions around the rim representing the nails on the horseshoe. The calkins and frog are also depicted. On the hoof area are three vertical grooves, and the hoof is deliminated from the shoe by grooves too. There is a small portion of the ferrous tang remaining. The end cap has a dark brown patina. Other knife end-caps in the form of a stylised horse's hoof are recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. An excavated parallel is noted in Egan 2005: 93, ref: 398 from a late 15th - early 16th century context. Compare also with Crummy (1988: 75-76; ref: 3101) for a close parallel of uncertain material. It is 17.9mm long, 16.2mm wide and 9.6mm thick. It weighs 10.39gm. See also ESS-47D360 and IOW-F16917.
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