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Description: | Medieval Sword scabbard chape of cut and folded sheet with two pairs of arms (one pair missing), both secured by a single rivet through leaf-shaped terminals. Between the arms a central sub-rectangular panel is of the same size on both sides of the fold. Engraved decoration on both faces is very similar, consisting of vertical, horizontal, oblique and wavy lines. On the central panels, within a contour line an ?A? with an angled cross bar. On one face the sides of the ?A? are single lines, on the other double. For this type of chape see de Reuck 1991, 3, top row left and right. Height 43mm. Width (estimated) 50mm. 12th 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: | 1100
1200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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