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Description: | An incomplete sheet copper alloy scabbard chape for a sword or dagger. Medieval to Post-Medieval, c. AD 1450 -1600. Length: 40.5mm; width: 28.0mm and 3.1mm thick. Weight: 7.14gThe chape is tongue-shaped in plan and the back plate is missing. The front is moulded and the rear is concave. A projection sprung from each top corner. However, one of these is partially intact but misshapen and the other is missing due to an old break. At the front decoration is in the form of a motif composed of raised annulets. At the top there is a transverse cabled rib and at the centre of the base is a small rounded knop.The object has no patina and the surface colour of the metal id dull reddish brown. There are loose green copper alloy corrosion products within the crevices.Similar chapes are recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, see find: NMS-E97EC4. A similar chape is recorded from Weston Parish, Suffolk. Brian Read has also published a similar example (Read 2001, 84, fig. 58, ref. 687).
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