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Description: | A complete Post Medieval copper-alloy anthropomorphic knife end-cap from a scale-tang knife dating to the 16th Century. The end-cap, which is broadly oval in cross-section, is in the form of a human, probably a man's, head wearing a pointed hood. The very long, thin face with pointed chin, which is looking up at an angle of approximately 45 degrees, has crudely engraves facial features: a long vertical ridge forms a nose, separating the two round recesses for eyes, with two horizontal grooves forming the end of the nose and the mouth. A further groove is situated above the brow. The hood, which is triangular in profile, has a pointed projection with rounded mouldings behind it, which could represent part of a hat, or perhaps animal ears. The man's neck forms the oval sectioned platform, the top and bottom of which are both decorated with an incised circumferential groove. The base houses the wide slit for the knife tang. There is iron corrosion in this slit and below the man's chin, suggesting an iron blade. The end-cap is 16.81mm tall, 16.26mm wide, 8.20mm thick and weighs 9.34g. The metal has a dark purplish-brown patina with patches of corrosion but is generally in a good condition. .A similar knife end-cap illustrated in Read (2001), p89, no.662, and more similar examples recorded on the database, e.g. IOW-0D565A, are all thought to date to the 16th Century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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