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Description: | A cast copper-alloy knife handle or end cap of probable Post-Medieval date. It is rectangular in form, hexagonal in section and with a central oval shaped aperture visible at the base into which the now missing knife tang would originally have passed. At the top the handle flares to a bilobate terminal that has two flattened triangular lobes with semi-circular knops at their tips and which are separated at the centre by a projecting globular knop. Running from the join between the lobes are two deep moulded vertical flutes that form two of the facets/faces of the handle. The other four faces of the handle are decorated with zig-zag lines formed from a single line of punched dots within vertical borders of punched dots. All exterior surfaces of the handle have a green patina with traces of gilding. It measures 50.10mm in length, 28.60mm in width at terminal (13.59mm in width at socket), 12.34mm in thickness, and weighs 39.92g. This is a decorative knife handle or end cap from a scale tang knife. The form and decoration suggest that it is of probable Post-Medieval date, perhaps c.16th-17th centuries AD in date if not a little earlier or later.
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