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Description: | A cast copper-alloy two-piece scabbard chape with a knop terminal and openwork design. The front plate of the chape is incomplete. Approximately half of the chape is missing. The entire reverse (back plate) is also missing. The front plate of the chape has a raised ridge running down the centre of the chape which divides the design of the chape into two symmetrical halves. The half which survives has two openings, the one at the top is circular and there is a rectangular opening below it. Below this there is a small circular hole (repeated on the other side). Parts of the other halves openwork design remains, the breaks look well worn. The chapes front plate does has sides which would have allowed the front plate of the chape to be joined to the back plate. The metal has a mid-greyish green patina and much of the original surface still survives. This type of chape dates to the 15th - 16th century. Similar examples can be seen in Biddle, 1990, pp1083, Ref 4037.
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