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Description: | A worn and incomplete two-piece copper-alloy dagger scabbard chape. The front-piece is cast and terminates in a scallop form. The grooves and ridges which create the effect of the shell radiate out from a recessed openwork trefoil. Immediately above this perforation is a transverse ridge featuring irregular diagonal incisions, above which is a central, heart-shaped aperture. Above this latter is a transverse incisions, above which a crenellated top (W.: 23.4mm). There is a small break between the two. The sheet backplate is considerably thinner than the front-piece. On this example it is soldered in situ in places, but largely corroded and lost. In its form the chape has similarities with examples illustrated in Ward Perkins (1993, 285; fig. III), Cuddeford (1994, 40; fig. 76) and Bailey (1995, 70). Such parallels suggest a late fifteenth- or sixteenth-century date for this artefact. On many of these examples the front-piece has a rounded knop terminal below the scallop. This artefact is now a mid/dark-green colour with some blemishes. | 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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