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Description: | A complete copper-alloy hilt-plate from a medieval whittle-tang knife. The object is sub-rectangular in shape, but narrows at one end. The hilt plate is bent at the narrower end. It has a rectangular perforation, located towards the wider end. No decoration is discernible. Similar examples can be found illustrated in Read (2001, 88; ref. 642-644). It has been bent slightly and has suffered a crack.The hilt-plate measures 27.00mm long, 10.80mm wide, 2.60mm thick and weighs 1.28 grams.
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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