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Description: | A complete copper-alloy artefact: probably a late early-medieval/medieval scabbard chape (c. 12th century AD). The object is formed of a broadly U-shaped plate folded over on itself such that is is L-shaped, albeit at a slightly obtuse angle. The two elements are joined with an extant rivet at the top of the 'L'.
The terminal at which the two elements are attached are slightly expanded, with one more rounded than the other. The arms are moulded in low relief on their outer surface in a cabled fashion. At the corner at small rounded lobe protrudes. The front of the chape is expanded with a pair of transverse grooves on its front face.
The artefact is difficult to parallel within the corpus of scabbard chapes (de Reuck 1991), although it has sufficient affinity with 12th-century examples to suggest that it is a chape of this date. It has now corroded to a variable mid-green colour. | Subjects: | chape | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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