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Description: | Cast copper alloy folding knife handle length 47mm, width 14mm, thickness 5mm, weight 9.84g. This is a hare and hound series of folding-knife handles. The hound has well-moulded fore and hindquarters and a slender body. The head is elongated, the tip of the snout touching the hare's tail. The hare also has well-moulded limbs and a slender body that is angled downwards from front to back. Under the animals are the remains of a groove that would have run the length of the handle, this is where the folded blade would have fitted. The handle has suffered from damage, it is snapped in two with the break between the hound and hare. Also the base of the hound has been distorted with one side missing. Date roman. Other examples on the PAS databases are found at GLO-FC3057, SF-32AEB7 NMS-328581 BH-853037.
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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