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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy sword or dagger chape of Medieval to Post-Medieval date. It consists of a flattened sheet of copper-alloy that has been folded/rolled so that both sides overlap, thus creating an oval shaped aperture through which the scabbard would originaly have passed. The chape tapers towards the base, but this is incomplete and has suffered extensive post-depositional damage making its form uncertain. At the top of the chape where the two sides overlap there is a single circular rivet hole that would have enabled attachment of the chape to the scabbard and ensured both sides stayed attached to one another. The entire object has a mid-green patina but is undecorated. It measures 54mm in surviving length, 24.96mm in width, 7.56mm in thickness (including aperture; the sheet is 0.86mm in thickness), and weighs 6.91g. This is probably a sword or dagger chape and dates to the later Medieval to Post-Medieval periods, c.14th-17th centuries AD. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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