Remains of wooden handle, cutting edge in 'S' shape. Waterman 1959 says "A commoner type seemingly unrelated to the knife forms current in the middle ages may be included here. It is of slighter proportions, the cutting edge an elongated S-curve in profile and the junction of the blade and tang marked by pronounced drooping shoulders. The blade is wedge shaped in section and the tang either equals or exceeds the blade in length; the diminutive size of [some] blade[s] may be due to continual resharpening. In a few cases handles of wood and bone are preserved. This form of knife is recognised in Scandinavia during the Viking Age and occurs at the Saxon town of Thetford, in Norfolk, the offsetting of blade from tang and the greater length of the tang in proportion to the blade being consistent features." Much less of the handle now survives than is illustrated in Waterman.
