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Description: | A medieval to early post medieval iron scale tang knife with bone or antler handle scales. The scales are flat and ridged; this is either the natural surface of the antler or bone carved to look like antler. There are four in situ rivets along the length of the handle holding the two scales and the tang together. The blade is covered in a thick white and brown corrosion product. It is rectangular but broken near the handle, so its full length is unknown. The knife now measures 129.5mm (length) x 22.8 (width) x 11.5mm (thickness) and weighs 48.00g.A broad date is suggested because scale tang knives were made from the mid 14th to mid 16th century (after then the fashion turned to pin-tang knives until the 18th century; Brown 2001, 63 & 69), and plain handle knives like this example would have been made throughout that period.
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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