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Description: | A cast copper-alloy scabbard chape of early Anglo-Saxon date. The object comprises a tapering triangular plate of copper alloy, with a rounded end, which continues into a bend and creates a small back plate. The front plate has three circular settings, cast integrally to the plate; one on either side of the long edges and one on the point of the triangle. The settings are now empty but would have perhaps once housed a stone. There is a lot of iron corrosion on the surface of the chape. The metal is a mid greyish-green colour and the surface is slightly pitted.This is one of a group of distinctive English chapes, which do not fall into any of Menghin's groups of Frankish chapes. The closest parallels in Menghin's groups are those with profiled terminal knobs (particularly his Type 3b, Andernach-Blumenfeld, and Type 3c, Wageningen), although the English finds are rather simpler, as they lack the animal or bird heads found on Types 3b and 3c. The group now consists of three from Norfolk (Thetford, HER 24822; East Anglian Archaeology 72, fig.67 no.25; Congham, HER 25765, found 2001; and NMS-751713, Burnham Thorpe), two from East Sussex (SUSS-427FF4, near Eastbourne; and possibly the fragment SUSS-46F1D7, Beddingham), and one from the Isle of Wight (IOW-C1B525, Bowcombe). NMS-751713 retains a glass setting in one of the circular cells.
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