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Description: | Early Medieval Frankish copper-alloy zoomorphic scabbard chape fragment, 28.7mm long, 25.6mm wide and 2.7mm thick. The object is in good condition with a green patina and weighs c. 5g. It is in the form of a helmeted moustached warrior with what appears to be serpents emerging from each side, which then curve round towards the face. The helmet is triangular in form and is represented by a raised band, above which are radiating incised lines running to the edges. The warrior has cup-and-ring eyes and has an angular nose guard in between. He has a moustache formed of chevron shaped incised lines starting from under his nose guard which continue to the base of the emerging serpents. The raised space between the lines is decorated with a series of short incisions. Below the chevrons are further vertical incised lines running to the base of the object. The serpents have a central ridge running down their middle with short incised lines running across this. They have cup and ring eyes and appear to have open mouths represented by triangular protrusions. The object is plain on the reverse, but has four circular holes, drilled centrally, two in each of the middle of the serpents which would have held the chape onto the scabbard. The object appears to be missing part of its lower edge, which would have tapered to a point, possibly with a spherical terminal.
The object is very similar to one found In Lowesby, Harborough District, ref. 70NW.AM. Other examples can be found on the PAS database at SF2799, HAMP-4CBF82, DENO-061D23and SUR-72CF23. They are of Menghin's Type 3a (Typ Samson) which Menghin dates to the 5th century AD; it is possible that they continue in use into the 6th century in England. | 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: | 400
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Wendy Scott | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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