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Description: | A cast copper-alloy scabbard chape with a knop terminal. The front plate of the chape is also complete (apart from a break on the open end) but only half of the reverse survives. The end open (of the front plate) has been decorated with a row of crenellations. Below them there is a heart shape, which has been cut out of the copper alloy plate. Below this there is an engraved line. Below the line (in the centre of the chape) there is a tri-lobed trefoil, which has again been cut out of the plate. Radiating down from this trefoil is a series of ridges and grooves. The grooves radiate out from a central point. Then finally below that there is a small circular knop in the centre at the bottom of the chape. The reverse is undecorated. The front plate and the back plate (the reverse) have been joined together. They are not integral. The metal is a dark-greenish brown colour, but has patches of a light greyish-green on the surface. These chapes date to the 15th - 16th 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
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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