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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Knife (or razor) handle with a peltate terminal. The shaft of the handle is rectangular in section with chamfered edges and two open rectangles in the centre. The openings have traces of lead-tin alloy suggesting insets now missing. The end of the handle is cut into a scrolled shape and cleft with an iron knife blade slotted into position and held together by two iron rivets through a groove on both faces. See Colchester; Crummy 1983., Nos 2938-9, from contexts dating AD 75-250; and Verulamium; Waugh and Goodburn 1972, Fig 35, No 75 an elaborately decorated example dated to AD 85-105.
Site Name: Segontium, Caernarfon
Notes: Context, Code: 1271, Feature type: clay loam layer, Date of context: phase 5A Flavian-Trajanic
