THE KNIVES are out at York's Fairfax House with the opening of an exhibition of cutlery dating back 5,000 years.
The tour charts the use of forks, spoons, knifes and other eating tools in use as early as the Stone Age.
Opening on September 1 and running until the end of the year, it will include Stone Age knives made of flint, folding knives used by Roman soldiers on the march and intricately decorated cutlery from Stuart England.
Fairfax House director Peter Brown said: "It is a particular pleasure and privilege to bring this amazing collection of cutlery to York for the first public display in its entirety.
"Man and knife have been together many thousands of years, and we shall be able to set before our visitors an astonishing range of eating implements."
Updated: 10:06 Tuesday, July 10, 2001
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