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- Knife
- Iron
- L. 9.9 cm. Blade: l. 7.1 cm, measured from juncture with tang; w. 14.5 mm; th. current, 3 mm; back of blade, ca. 1 mm edge of blade. Tang: l. 30 mm max., measured from juncture with blade back; w. 10 mm tapering to 5 mm at the break; th. current, 3 mm.
- Small iron table knife blade, one-edged with handle tang, of the 'whittle tang' type. The blade and tang, cast in one piece, of a small eating knife, the blade of uniform width, one edge thinned for sharpening. The axis of the blade is on a slight angle to that of the tang. The back of the blade is offset at a slight, sharply cornered diagonal from the narrower tang by ca 4 mm.; the front of the blade is barely offset by an irregular curve. The tang itself has wavering contours, and was meant to be inserted into a handle, presumably of wood.
- Poor. Knife point and end of tang broken away; working edge chipped; lightly encrusted all over, with patches of rust.
- Sogliani 1995, 69 n. 14; Belli 2003, 2.3.3 (from the first half of the 15th century)