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Description: | A cast copper-alloy sword or dagger chape of late medieval to early post-medieval date, late 15th or 16th century. The plate has moulded openwork decoration on the front and the back plate is missing. There are two openwork trefoils, one above the other, though the upper one is broken. From thes lower trerfoil emerge radiating grooves which run to the edge of the chape. The chape has straight sides and a rounded terminal. It measures 34.29 mm long, 24.56 mm wide, 2.04 mm thick and weighs 6 grams. It is worn and suffers the effects of bronze disease, with a pale green patina in places, darker green to black where the surface metal survives. For a similar example see the London Museum Medieval Catalogue (1940), page 285, Figure 87, number III.
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