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The knife handle is square-sectioned and slightly tapering towards the blade end where it is waisted and decorated with raised collars with a central chased zig-zag. The handle is pierced throughout by a circular iron tang, as is shown by a trace of iron emerging at the butt end. The blade, of which only a stub remains, is narrow and of triangular section. Three sides of the handle are inlaid with enamel and the fourth is plain. Two of the opposing sides have chequer-pattern decoration; the remaining decorated side has an elaborate, and rotationally symmetrical, curvilinear pattern of Celtic inspiration. The original colours are not now distinguishable.