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Description: | A cast copper alloy front piece from an incomplete two-piece dagger scabbard chape of late Medieval to Post Medieval (1400-1600 AD) date. It has a plain, concave back and a moulded front and sides. The sheet backplate is missing.The lower part is shaped like a scallop shell with radiating incised line. At the base of the curve is a projecting biconical knop with a rounded front and flat back. Above the scallop shape the scabbard narrows slightly and has a raised horizontal band with regular diagonal incisions. Above the band is a rectangular section with three rows of sub-circular pierced holes arranged 3-4-3. Above this section is another, thinner, raised horizontal band with diagonal incisions and above this the top is shaped into four projecting rectangular tabs with rectangular cut outs between.It is 40.4mm long, 24.3mm wide, 7.8mm thick and weighs 10.66 grams.Ward Perkins (1940) illustrates similar chapes (Plate LXXX) and this example is closest to his Type III (ibid p.285) with a similar scallop lower section and indented top. This is a varient on his standard Type III which has a trefiol piercing in the upper part rather than the rows of holes and additional holes in the scallop lower section, missing on this example. He dates them to the 15th to 16th centurys (ibid p.286).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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