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- Knife blade
- Iron
- L. current ca. 12.8 cm. Tang, w. 13-14 mm at forked end tapering to 10 mm, th. 2.5-3 mm. Blade, w. 12 mm swelling to 13 mm, tapering to 5 mm. at the tip break.
- The straight-backed, one-edged blade with handle-tang of a well made small eating knife. Cast in one piece, the back of the blade in a straight line with the tang, the blade curve rising from a small forward offset. Missing are blade point and tang end. The tang had attachment holes on each side, three rivets are preserved in a row, corroded in place, though the organic handle material (bone or wood) has disapppeared.
- Broken slightly at each end; heaviily encrusted, rusted, corroded.
- Solagni 1995, 72, n. 26.
- 1350 AD - 1400 AD