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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy scabbard chape of possible Continental origin. Early Early-Medieval, late fifth or early sixth century. Length 52mm, width 18.5mm and 11mm thick. Weight 11.81g .The front plate of the chape is almost complete. Viewing the front, it has a slender appearance and a flattened median zone, about 2mm in width, flanked on either side by a surface that curves downwards to meet the edges of the back face of the plate. At the top of the chape is a swelling to accommodate a circular countersunk depression with vertical sides. The depression is about 5mm in diameter and 2mm deep. At the centre of the depression is a small fixing hole that is 1mm in diameter. There may have been a small loop as an extension to the top of the swelling, but this part is broken and missing. Below this swelling the sides of the chape flare outwards and downwards to a mid-way point where there are two other similar swellings that extend outwards, one either side of the flattened median zone. These swellings also accommodate circular countersunk holes with vertical sides. The diameter of the right-hand hole is 5mm and the diameter of the left-hand hole is 4.5mm. Both holes are about 2.5mm in depth. At the centre of each of these holes is a central fixing hole which is about 3mm in diameter. Below these swellings, the sides of the chape taper inwards to meet a terminal in the form of a moulded collar below which is a bi-conical knop. However, the lower cone is much larger than the upper cone. The rear of the front plate is flat. The back plate is largely broken and missing and only a small portion of it survives. The break is old. The countersunk holes were probably filled with a decorative material but there is no evidence for this. The piece has a pale green patina and appears to be in a stable condition. | 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: | 475
525 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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