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Description: | Copper alloy knife handle, comprising an end-cap (21 mm x 9 mm) and rectangular plates (53 mm x 9 mm) containing corroded remains of iron scale tang in slot. Rectangular cross-section. The terminal is rounded on the two narrow faces and ends in sharp ridged projection. Decoration consists, from the terminal, of three pairs of deep slots in the sides, both faces with engraved bordering and transverse lines and transverse ladder-decoration towards junction with plates with similar ladder decoration at both ends of longitudinal inscription and with bands of oblique engraved line above and below, panel with engraved saltire at inner end of both plates pierced by an copper alloy rivet. The inscriptions on the plates read: NEMO XXXEX (no one/no man) // NOVISSIMA (very new/youngest/latest (feminine or neuter plural)). The details are partly obscured by iron corrosion. The end-cap is similar to examples from Suffield (HER 52655), and Hibaldstow in North Lincolnshire (PAS NLM-847F96). Dates to the 16th century.
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