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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy sword or dagger chape of Medieval date (AD 1200 ? AD 1300). Length 24mm, maximum width 22mm and maximum thickness 5mm. Weight 4.06g.
The chape is made of a piece of cast copper alloy sheet which has been bent to form a double plate. The plates are of equal size and trapezoidal in plan. The top edges are 19mm in width, the lower edge is 14mm in width and each side has a length of 15mm. At one of the corners on the top edge is an integral upward projecting arm. There would have, originally, been four of these arms, one at each corner. These four elements enabled the chape to be attached to the scabbard. Both faces of the plate are decorated. At the top centre of one plate is a small indentation. A groove extends vertically from the indentation to the bottom of the plate. At each side of this groove are similar obliquely aligned grooves in a symmetrical pattern occupying the whole surface. At the top of the other plate, the edge is ?frilled? and at the centre of the plate is a single element of elongated openwork. This face also has grooved decoration, although the pattern is vague and apparently random.
The piece has a light green patina, some of which has been lost. It also has small areas occupied by powdery green corrosion products. The breaks are old and abraded. | 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
1300 | 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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