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Description: | A cast copper alloy Post-Medieval scabbard chape. The chape is triangular in shape with flat front and semi-circular back giving a D-shaped section, all of which tapers to a flattened terminal end. The top of the chape is now missing due to an old break, however, it is apparent from what survives that the front of the chape would probably have ended in a curved, semi-circular terminal. An oval shaped hole measuring 6.38mm in length and 4.90mm in width is also visible on the flat front of the chape. This example has decorative scenes on all surfaces. The front of the chape has a central decorative floral motif that extends down to the hole, the entire front plate framed with zigzag lines that follow the edges. The curved back of the chape is equally decorative. Here the decoration is divided by zigzag lines, identical to those noted on the front, into five distinct panels. In the central and two exterior decorative panels are two rectangles followed by floral decoration towards the top of the chape. In the other two panels are similar floral motifs running the entire length of the chape. This example measures 25.56mm in length, 13.70mm in width, 9.87mm in thickness, and weighs 6.64g. The decoration on this chape, combined with it being seemingly cast as a single object, suggest that it should belong to the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries AD, or perhaps a little later. See Egan, 2005: 190-194 for a brief discussion of chapes. See also Bailey, 1995: 70-74.
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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