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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy sword chape of Medieval date. The open end of the chape is mostly missing due to old breaks and the surviving areas of the object have suffered from extensive post-depositional corrosion. The chape is V-shaped in form, hollow, and oval shaped in profile. At its base is an integrally cast projecting terminal that is rectangular in form and oval shaped in section. One side of the chape extends upwards to form a projecting arm, perhaps with the remains of an incomplete rivet hole visible at its upper edge, a second similar arm probably extending from the opposing side of the chape but now incomplete. Between the arms is openwork decoration of uncertain form, with the remains of two V-shaped perforations visible where the object terminates in old breaks. Both faces have traces of a dark brown patina and much copper-alloy corrosion. It measures 46.82mm in surviving height, 36.18mm in width, 6.62mm in thickness, and weighs 13.88g (including encrusted earth in the interior).This is an incomplete sword chape of Medieval date. Similar examples are noted on the PAS database (e.g. LVPL-559261 and IOW-C23C90) and from London (LMMC: Fig. 88 no 1), which suggest probable a 13th-14th century AD date for the current example.
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