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Description: | A late medieval sword or dagger chape. The chape has a bulb shaped body with a knop at the bottom. At the top of the bulb is a band decorated with linear incisions after which the shape of the chape is rectangular. The bulb has a trefoil shaped perforation in the centre, from which triangular wedges radiate. The reverse of the plate is hollow to hold the tip of the sword/dagger blade. The back plate of the chape is missing. The chape is broken from the rectangular section, but there is slight evidence for further perforated decorations at the edge of the break. The chape is very similar to some examples illustrated in the London Museum Catalogue (particularly Fig. 87, III) which are dated to the late 15th or 16th century (Ward-Perkins 1940, 284; Fig 87). Sword and dagger chapes are often very difficult to tell apart, being functionally similar and following the same contemporary fashions for design. The chape is likely to date from circa 1475 to circa 1600.
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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