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Description: | Part of the handle of a scale tang knife of Post Medieval date, about AD 1500 - 1600. The handle is rectangular in plan and sub rectangular in section, one face being flat, the other slightly rounded at the sides. The handle is made of copper alloy, with the iron tang of the knife still surviving inside the openwork handle. Broken at both ends, the handle has a rectangular slot in the centre of each face. These would probably have held decorative inserts. The rounded face is also decorated with an incised longitudinal line along one long edge. The upper copper alloy scale projects slightly at one end, but terminates in an original edge, though the iron and the lower scale appear to have continued further. At the other end, both the copper alloy and iron are broken. The knife is similar in style to SF6924, and to examples of Elizabethan knives on page 13 of Moore (1995) Table Knives and Forks. However, these knifes also have similarities to a Roman knife from Colchester, number 2939 on page 110 of Crummy. The knife is 42.23mm long, 15.56mm wide and 5.66mm thick. 11.87g.
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