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Description: | Medieval copper alloy knife handle cover formed from sheet folded over into a hexagon with a soldered butt-joint. The whole, now somewhat squashed, widens towards the (missing) separate end plate. A fragment of the iron whittle tang remains within. The four narrow sides are decorated with rows of oblique lines. To judge from better preserved examples the wider sides may have been decorated with figures, but though they are a little worn they seem to have always been plain. Decorated examples are quite common, e.g. one from Hainford, Norfolk (HER 50072, NMS-C8E681), and for example BH-9B5EC1, SWYOR-43EAED, HAMP-B52927 and SUR-592F76.Length 21.7mm c.1400 - c.1539. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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