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Description: | Copper alloyBolster, as identified by finder. Cast solid bolster for a whittle tang knife with blade width of 12.5mm (as inferred from the slot in bolster, no blade remains). The bolster is of angular and slightly irregular facetted hexagonal form, neatly bevelled towards the blade. The whittle tang is the earlier form of knife blade, displaced by the scale tang in the course of the 14th and 15th centuries, and an angular form for the handle and its fittings was fairly common in the medieval period, albeit knife handles rarely survive. Suggested date: Medieval, 1300-1400.
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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