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Description: | A cast copper-alloy scabbard chape with a knop terminal. The front plate of the chape is complete but the entire reverse is missing. The front plate of the chape consists of four decorated sections. The opening has been decorated with four crenellations, which are themselves decorated with transverse lines. Below this section there is a band, which has been decorated with a rope design. The next section down is rectangular and decorated with a series of punched holes; below this there is a band, which has also been decorated with a rope design. Below this there is an almost circular, slightly domed shape section, which has been decorated with incised grooves. The grooves radiate out from a central point, below the rope design, to the edges of the chape. Then finally below that there is a small circular knop in the centre at the bottom of the chape. The metal has a dark-greenish brown patina. A black lacquer survives in traces on the front surface and on the reverse of the front surface the lacquer survives almost covers the copper-alloy. These chapes date to the 15th - 16th century.
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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