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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy handle from an unidentified tool or implement. Slightly tapering rectangular body, broad oblique grooves with dividing ridges on both faces, ridge at angled terminal with a large terminal knop in the form of a stylised goose. The other end is broken across a sub-rectangular blind hole in one face. Surviving length 55mm. Width at break 8.5mm. Width at angled terminal ridge 12mm. 4.5mm thick. Cf. Norfolk examples, with traces of iron corrosion at surviving sockets: from West Acre (HER 3953) with a stylised animal-head terminal, Mattishall (HER 36629, NMS-98D121) with a terminal in the form of a dove, and Harling (HER 51655) and Hillington (HER 32137), both with broad oblique grooves and a terminal loop. 17th-18th century.
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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