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Description: | A complete post-Medieval cast copper-alloy knife end-cap (c. AD 1500-1600). The cap is in the form of a stylised horse's hoof. It is sub-oval in cross-section and curves throughout its length. On the sides are three almost circumferential grooves, one at the top, one at the bottom and another in the middle. These grooves do not quite extend around to the rear part. The terminal end is largely flat and is in the form of a horse shoe and has two calkins and small indentations representing shoe nails. At the opposite end of the cap there is a rectangular slot that contains the remains of an iron tang. This end-cap is mainly covered in off-white and light green corrosion products.Height: 15.46mm; width: 12.81mm; thickness: 8.32mm. Weight: 6.19g.Other knife end-caps in the form of a stylised horse's hoof are recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, See finds: IOW-F17917, SF-388A25, HAMP-462E17 and LON-3D5421).An excavated parallel is noted in Egan 2005: 93, ref: 398, from a late 15th-early 16th century context. Compare also with Crummy (1988: 75-76; ref: 3101) for a close parallel of uncertain material.
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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