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Description: | A medieval to early post medieval iron tranverse tang knife with wooden handle scales. The scales are rounded and undecorated, with the tang running through the centre at a 90 degree angle to the blade. The blade is rectangular and is 87.0mm long, however it is highly corroded and may be broken or blunted. It measures 151.0mm (length) x 21.6 (width) x 14.9mm (thickness) and weighs 44.47g.Scale tang knives were made from the mid 14th to mid 16th century AD (after then the fashion turned to pin-tang knives until the 18th century; Brown 2001, 63 & 69) so a broad date is suggested, however a similar knife with a tranverse tang and wooden handle is included in Peter Brown's catalogue, which was also found on the foreshore, and dated to c.1550 AD (2001, 74).
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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