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KNIFE
Unique ID: SF6653
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
End-cap from a knife handle, made from copper alloy sheet. Hexagonal in section, it has one longitudinal soldered seam (with silvery solder visible) and flares from a minimum of 8 x 9 mm to a damaged and bent wider end. There are two wider panels separated by two pairs of narrower panels; each panel flares slightly to the wider end and is decorated with panels of engraved ornament within engraved borders. The narrower panels have geometric ornament; two concentric circles at either end (the outer circle partly cut off by the border) and two pairs of oblique grooves at the centre. The wider panels each have an engraved figure turned slightly to the left (as you look at it); each is bearded and has its left arm bent (the arm on the right as you look at it), and is wearing a long flowing garment. One appears to be nimbed (therefore a saint) but the other appears not to be. The identity of these figures is unclear. The end-cap dates to the 15th century.
Class: end cap
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1400
Date to: AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 24 mm
Width: 13.5 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight: 2.44 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st June 2001
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD
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Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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