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Iron Age knife handle - side view
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Suffolk County Council, Helen Geake, 2014-07-23 13:07:57
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Iron Age knife handle - side view
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English: Cast copper alloy knife handle with small section of corroded knife blade; the tang of the knife is circular in section and terminates in an anthropomorphic head which faces sideways, in the same plane as the blade; the head is hairless, and facial features, executed in relief, include almond-shaped eyes, a squared-off nose and pointed chin; the guard or hilt is asymmetrical in regards to the point where it joins the tang; the guard has slightly angled outer edges and a straight inner edge; the outer surface is decorated with a continuous medial groove which is obscured in places by corrosion from the iron blade which survives as a short irregular stub. Testing with a magnet reveals that the tang of the iron blade is inserted into the cylindrical hilt. A parallel for the use of an iron blade in combination with a copper alloy hilt with a human head terminal is provided by an Iron age knife from Basel, Switzerland, of the 2nd or 1st centuries BC.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date IRON AGE
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FindID: 15932
Old ref: SF1285
Filename: SUT022 SF1285 KnifeSide View.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/477783
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/477783/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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