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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy artefact: probably a late early-medieval/medieval scabbard chape (c. 12th century AD). The object is formed of a broadly rectangular lower plate with an arm protruding up from it at a slightly oblique angle to the perpendicular. This upper arm has been bent backwards just below the halfway point, at an angle of around forty-five degrees.The lower section bends back on itself at the end opposite the arm. It is assumed that the complete chape would have been made of a symmetrically cut piece of copper alloy bent round on itself so that the leather of the scabbard would have fit between the two folds. This lower element is broken just 10.05mm after the return fold; the rest of the object is now missing. On its upper surface it features a raised border upper and lowermost. Within the border is a sinuous curve formed of small punch marks with further, isolated punches above each peak and trough. Beyond the return is different, chipped decoration formed of diagonal lines.The upper surface of the arm is formed of moulded cabling with semi-circular cross-section. The arm terminates in a collar, beyond which a crudely rounded loop. The perforation would presumably have held a pin which would have gone through the leather to the (now missing) other arm.The artefact is difficult to parallel within the corpus of scabbard chapes (de Reuck 1991), although it has sufficient affinity with 12th-century examples to suggest that it is a chape of this date. A useful parallel on this database, from the same county - HAMP-AB8257 - was also recorded as such. It appears to bear comparable decoration, albeit the arms are plain on the parallel.
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