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Description: | Incomplete cast iron knife with a blade that is semi-circular in plan, corroded to an oblong shape, and a whittle tang. The upper edge of the blade is bi-convex, but also worn, and varies from about 6 mm to 4 mm in thickness, and the cutting edge is straight and was originally about 4 mm thick but thins in places to about 3 mm, where more of the original surface has corroded away. The end of the blade is broken and jagged, but seems to be curving around towards the straight edge. The opposite end of the blade tapers to form angular shoulders, about 34 mm in width to meet the neck of the tang, which is about 20 mm in thick. The tang tapers from a rectangular section, 17 mm thick, at the blade end, to a square section, 7 mm thick, at the haft end which has broken in the past and is now rounded. It is not certain whether this is perhaps a pruning knife, but the curvature of the blade and symmetrical shoulders make it unlikely. The surface is still fragile but no longer flaking as it has been sealed by a substance like lacquer by the finder.See SWYOR-E24CF7 for a similar tanged blade that is dated from the Post Medieval period.Egan (2005) illustrates a similar tang with a square section and angled shoulders on a graver on page 149, Fig.142, No.787, which is dated from c.1500-1550.Bailey (2000) illustrates smaller knives with similarly shaped blades on page 80, Figs.13-15, which are dated from the later Medieval period.
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