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Description: | A worn and incomplete copper-alloy sword scabbard chape. The surviving element is the cast front-piece (with bent sides) of a former two-piece chape; the backplate would have been sheet. The chape is broadly shield shaped with a rounded base featuring an off-centre knopped terminal. Above the knop is a longitudinal central rib truncated by a perforation which dominates the centre of the chape. This aperture takes the form of an upturned cross with semi-circular arms. Immediately above this perforation is a transverse ridge. Above the ridge the field is truncated by circular perforations, the uppermost row of which are in a broadly straight alignment (based on comparable examples, see below), and the row below are in a more wavy alignment. A combination of these holes and moulding creates trefoil designs at the top of the chape. On comparable examples there are three trefoils; on this example the central trefoil has been lost following old damage, as has the body of the chape between a number of perforations forming a void. In its form the chape has similarities with examples illustrated in Ward Perkins (1993, 285; fig. V) and Bailey (1995, 71; fig. 1). Such parallels suggest a 15th- or 16th-century date for this artefact. See also, Portable Antiquities Scheme database: ref. DEV-5DF011
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