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Description: | Medieval chape of copper alloy. It is 30mm long (incomplete), has a maximum diameter of 16x12mm and weighs 8.06g (with compacted soil inside). Some of the black patina is missing and the end is broken.
The chape is constructed from a piece of copper alloy bent into a tappering tube with the two long edges of the sheet overlapping. Two rivets are located on the opposite side of the cylinder to this overlap.
Around the wide open end is an incised border of a line running parallel to the edge and the gap filled with short diagonal lines. Parallel to the overlapped edge are two incised scalloped lines. Around the lower rivet is another pair of scalloped lines which form half an oval, incomplete because of the break.
As suggested by Nick Griffiths, it may have been for a cord, used to prevent the end from fraying and to facilitate threading through corresponding eyelets. However, this is a very large example; diameters are usually around 2.5mm (Egan and Pritchard 283-4) although some artefacts identified as possible chapes reach 6mm (Egan and Pritchard 290). Alternatively, it may be a dagger chape, constructd from a reused object. However, in this case the rivets do not have a function.
The decoration suggests a date of 12th-14th 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
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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