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Description: | The front plate from a cast copper-alloy dagger chape, from a two piece sheet chape. The plate has been cast in one piece. The chape tapers from the decoratively cut top edge, to the rounded base - the top is badly damaged and torn open. There is a band of incised decoration along the top and a flower motif in the centre. The back plate is completely missing. The metal is pitted and it a mid brownish-green colour. It dates to the 14th - 16th century.
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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