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Description: | Medieval ? post-medieval copper alloy chape, dating to the late 15th-16th century. The chape is formed of a single sheet of copper alloy curved around into an oval shape to fit around the sheath of a dagger or scabbard. At the open end of the chape, on the front side only, there is cut and incised decoration around the edge. Three u-shaped incisions have been cut along this edge and the remaining areas of edge have been shaped into trilobes. There is incised linear decoration following the edge but there is no decoration on the back of the object. At the top left and top right of the chape there are two very small perforations on the reverse, presumably to attach to the leather sheath. The chape tapers to the closed terminal where the copper alloy sheet is cut and folded inwards to create the end. The chape is similar in shape to Type V in London Museum Medieval Catalogue, Fig. 87, page 285.
It weighs 18.9g and measures 42mm in length, 31.9mm in width and 14.4mm in thickness. It contains quite compact soil deposits. | 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: | 1450
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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