File:624 knife handle plate (FindID 105504).jpg

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624 knife handle plate.JPG
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Bristol City Council, Kurt Adams, 2005-09-02 12:30:14
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624 knife handle plate.JPG
Description
English: Knife handle fragment. Length 25mm, width 10mm narrowing to 7mm at the base, thickness 1mm. The artefacts is trapezoid in plan with a rectangular hole (3mm by 2mm) one third of the way down its length, the hole is dished slightly where it has been punched through the plate. There is an incised diamond decoration around the hole, this is the only decoration on the plate.
 The artefact is in a poor condition with corrosion stripping of most of the original surface resulting is a light green, slightly powdery surface. 
This is a sheet copper alloy plate that would have been the back plate of a tanged knife handle. There would have been an organic handle, probably bone or wood mounted on a knife tang, that had a copper alloy plate on the front and back that formed the handle. Tanged knifes that have a copper alloy plate one either side of the handle are more common in the 12th-14th century, which is the probable date for this object.
Depicted place (County of findspot) South Gloucestershire
Date between 1100 and 1400
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1100-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 105504
Old ref: GLO-DC8BA4
Filename: 624 knife handle plate.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/73814
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/73814/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/105504
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