Knife handle
This silver knife handle was one of several items discovered under the floorboards of an ancient house in Exeter. It would have been an expensive item and was probably a great loss to whoever dropped it.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 516/1987
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- metalsilver
- Common Name
- knife handle
- Simple Name
- handle
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
