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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy scabbard chape. The object as it survives consists of the front element of the chape; the thin back plate is missing. The chape has been broken into two relatively equally sized pieces following an old break. There is further damage at the attachment end and along an adjacent side until about half way down the edge in the form of a small missing piece, again following an old break. The chape is decorated at the attachment end with a raised transverse line. Below this line are three circular perforations arranged in a triangle. The fracture which divides the piece occurs along the line of the two lower perforations. The chape tapers to a circular knop. The artefact has an unusually irregular form; it curves off to a terminal at one side. A parallel to such a form can be found in Cuddeford (1994, 40; fig. 79). Referring to this latter example, there is evidence that the chape would have continued above the raised line. Indeed, the edge above the line is relatively rough, perhaps indicative of a break. The Cuddeford example is dated to between the 13th and 15th centuries, but since most cast chapes date to the 15th or 16th centuries, a later date within the Cuddeford range is suggested. | 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
1550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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