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Description: | A Roman iron knife blade and a cast copper alloy scabbard fitting, found together. The knife measures 125mm in length, 16.5mm in width and 6mm in thickness and it weighs 33.24g. The scabbard fitting, which came from the top of the sheath measures 35mm x 11.5mm x 8mm and the metal is c. 1.2mm thick. It weighs 10.07g.This type of knife is long-lived, but the scabbard mount probably dates from the earlier Roman period, that is the 1st or 2nd century AD. The knife was tanged with a probably symmetrical, leaf-shaped blade and a tang that the wooden handle was mounted on. Remains of the wood (or more likely, the impression of the wood in the corrosive products of the handle) are still visible around the tang (see close-up image).The scabbard fitting was made from cast copper alloy and would have been mounted on the leather sheath, at the mouth opening. All surfaces are very worn and the item suffers from bronze disease. It seems to be undecorated except for moulded horizontal grooves along the long straight edges.The mount is a pointed oval in plan. In profile, each side of the lower edge is double-arched to give a bi-concave shape, the centre portion between the arches being slightly longer than the outer ends. Similar objects recorded on the PAS database are SWYOR-4F9DC5, YORYM-E5A671 and HESH-782C85.
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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