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Description: | Complete copper alloy, medieval or post medieval scabbard chape. The chape is subrectangular in plan with a tapered, rounded end that is flattened across the tip. It is formed from a single piece of sheet metal, which does not appear to have any joins or overlaps. The chape is now flattened. It is 25.94mm long, 11.22mm wide at the broad open end and 4.88mm wide at the blunt tip. It weighs 0.92g. It has a mid green patina where the original surface survives, but has significant patches of lighter green and orangey brown corrosion. Read (2001) Metal artefacts of antiquity, illustrates a similar example, number 679. | 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: | 1200
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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