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Description: | An incomplete and misshapen sheet copper alloy dagger scabbard chape of Medieval date, fourteenth to fifteenth century (AD 1300 - AD 1500). Length: 67.9mm; width: 20.2mm and 18.0mm thick. Weight: 19.58g. (the weight includes some soil within the scabbard).The chape has been flattened although it would have originally been oval in cross-section. It is made from two separate pieces of sheet copper alloy which have been soldered together. Consequently, the knop is hollow. The attachment end is in the form of old ragged breaks where the width is 20.2mm. From these breaks the sides taper inwards slightly towards the globular knop at the terminal end. The object has no patina and the surface colour of the metal is a dull reddish brown. There are also patches of bright green copper alloy corrosion products on both faces.A similar complete chape, which has decoration on the front at the attachment end, has been published by Brian Read and dated 14th-15th century (Read 1995, 85, ref. 500). Another example of similar shape but shorter in length has been published by Gordon Bailey. See Bailey 1995, 70, ref. 34.An example with a globular knop has been recorded from Farthinghoe Parish, Northamptonshire. See: Portable Antiquities Scheme find: NARC-C7E8B4. However, this example is made of a single piece of rolled sheet copper alloy.
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