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Description: | Copper alloy Knife Pommel. Cast pommel from a small scale tang knife. Anthropomorphic decoration comprises a human head with a ruff around the neck and either an Episcopal mitre or a tall coiffure. The back of the head and neck is flattened, to form what is sometimes described as a horse foot terminal. A basal slot of depth and width 1.2mm would have received the end of a scale tang, a form introduced in the later Middle Ages. The lack of ferrous corrosion may suggest this object was lost separately from the knife which it had decorated. One of two similar objects reported from the same location. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1600.Height: 16.9mm, Diameter: 10.1mm, Weight: 7.73gms.
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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