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Description: | The object is a probable scabbard chape thought to date to the Medieval period or fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. The object is made of sheet copper alloy and is incomplete.
In plan the chape is sub-trapezoid in shape. The chape is made from a sheet of copper which has been rolled. It is not possible to see how the sheet is secured due to the amount of damage. At some point the chape has been crushed and flattened slightly. The upper edge, the tip and portions of the main body are missing. What remains of the object is in a very poor condition. Two complete sub-circular rivet holes hole are present in the upper right-hand corner of the upper edge. The holes are approximately 2.3mm in diameter.
The chape is dark green in colour and measures 66.8mm in length, 35.1mm wide (at the top), 24.3mm wide (at the base) and weighs 15.04g. Ottaway and Rogers (Ottaway, P. and Rogers, N. 2002. Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Finds from Medieval York. Volume 17: The Small Finds. CBA: York, p.2904) has examples of similar types of chapes which date to the same period as the recorded object. | Subjects: | Scabbard | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Housley, Sarah - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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