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Description: | A copper-alloy handle from a toilet knife. The handle is three-dimensional and depicts what is probably a mythical creature. The top of the head is rounded and extends into a long muzzle. The beak-like mouth is flared open and there is a small curving projection protruding from between the lips, possibly a tongue. The sides of the head are flat and each has a protruding "eye" formed of a raised ring of copper alloy with a recess in the centre. One of the recesses contains traces of possible enamel or paste for the attachment of a glass setting (the database example cited below retained a glass setting in one eye). The inside of the handle curves inwards into a narrow neck before continuing the curve out again, flaring towards the base. At the base a thin strip of iron is visible in the cross section, the remnant of the iron blade.Date: Late Iron Age to Early Roman - c. 30 BC to 50 ADDimensions: 30.49 mm x 21.02 mm x 4.24 mmWeight: 8.10 gDatabase record BH-0D3333 records a very similar object. In that record Julian Watters notes that a similar knife with a protruding and curving tongue is, was found in excavations in Silchester and is paralleled with other examples of Augusto-Tiberian date from Germany (G. Boon, 'The Other Objects of Copper Alloy', in M. Fulford and J.Timby, Late Iron Age and Roman Silchester Excavations on the site of the Forum-Basilica, 1977, 1980-86, 346 no. 81 fig. 161-163)
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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