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Description: | A medieval copper-alloy scabbard chape with a knop terminal. The chape is largely complete but there is evidence of a break or extensive wear around the opening of the chape. The visible part of the chape consists of four main parts. The section nearest to the shaped opening is rectangular and undecorated; below this there is a strip, which has been decorated with a rope design. Below this there is an almost circular, slightly domed part, which has been decorated with incised grooves, which in turn still have remnants of a black lacquer. The grooves radiate out from a central point, below the rope design, to the edges of the chape. Then finally below that there is a small circular knop in the centre at the bottom of the artefact. The reverse is free from any decoration, but it has been damaged. Much of the back plate has been pushed into the hollow cavity. The metal has a dark-brownish green patina. This artefact has been cast, but the joint between the back plate and the visible part of the chape is flawless suggesting that a backplate was originally soldered on. From a parallel at Winchester (Hinton in Biddle 1990, no. 4036) it can be dated to the 15th century. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1400
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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