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Description: | A two piece copper-alloy chape, the cast front plate survives and the back plate is now missing. The cast front plate is roughly rectangular in shape measuring 42.9mm in length and 25.2mm in width, at the open end. The open end has a shallow U-shaped top edge, after which the chape begins to taper towards the rounded terminal, which has a central knop projecting from its lower edge. The front face of this chape is decorated with a raised band with three diagonal mouldings, there are two old holes through this decorative band, they are roughly parallel and irregualar in shape, it seems likely that they are due to damage or wear rather than part of the original design of this chape. Beneath the diagonal mouldings there are two transverse grooves. The rounded terminal is then decorated with six radiating grooves, three on each side. The shallow sides of this cast front piece project from the front face at an angle of c45 degrees. Similar cast chapes have been found at Winchester and believed to be early post-medieval, c16th century in date(Biddle 1990, 1083, fig 348).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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