Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-EF0F97
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete copper-alloy hilt-plate from a medieval whittle-tang knife. The object is rectangular in shape but tapers very slightly towards the ends. It has a rectangular perforation, located in the centre. No decoration is discernible. It is also slightly bent. The hilt-plate measures 22.25mm long, 9.61mm wide, 1.53mm thick and weighs 1.44 grams.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Quantity: 1
Length: 22.25 mm
Width: 9.61 mm
Thickness: 1.53 mm
Weight: 1.44 g
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Other reference: SWM4262
4 Figure: TL9245
Four figure Latitude: 52.07007739
Four figure longitude: 0.79992508
1:25K map: TL9245
1:10K map: TL94NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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