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Description: | A late Early-medieval/Medieval scabbard chape (c. 12th century AD). The object is formed of a broadly rectangular lower plate which has been bent back on itself. A the opposite end to the bend there are two parallel arms protruding up from it at a slightly oblique angle to the perpendicular. Below the arms the plate has two opposing holes that appear to have been drilled. There are also opposing holes at the terminus of each arm. The chape appears to have been made of a symmetrically cut piece of copper alloy bent round on itself so that the leather of the scabbard would have fit between the two folds. The Drilled holes would have been used to secure the chape in place. The lower plate is 16.9 long and 11mm wide. It is decorated within a border with insised sinuous curves, possibly depicting feathers. The arms are decorated with diagonal line travelling up the inside.
The chape is 35.3mm long, 17.2mm wide, 6.3mm thick and weighs 5.3 grams.
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. Similar examples can be seen on the database: HAMP-AB8257 and HAMP-143B41. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jackson, Jennifer - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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