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Description: | A worn and incomplete two-piece, blackened copper-alloy dagger scabbard chape. The front-piece is cast and terminates in a scallop form with a rounded knop terminal. The grooves and ridges which create the effect of the shell radiate out from a recessed trefoil perforation. Immediately above this perforation is a transverse ridge featuring irregular diagonal grooves, above which is a central, heart-shaped aperture. On comparable examples (see below) there is a crenellated top to the chape above the aperture; this is missing on this example, perhaps following old damage. The sheet backplate is considerably thinner than the front-piece. On this example it has become detached from the front-piece and has corroded to a small, irregular fragment. It would have been soldered to the front-piece. 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.
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