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Description: | Late Medieval or early Post Medieval cast copper-alloy chape from a scabbard. The chape is broadly shield shaped in plan, with curved sides which converge at the base, ending in a rounded point. The top of the chape has a rectangular projecting flanked by pairs of concave curves with projecting points between them and at the edges. One of the inner points is cut off square and the central projection is bent forward. A raised rib runs down the centre of the front of the chape. To either side of the rib there are openwork designs consisting of a long rectangle with a small circle below and large circle above. The sides project backwards creating a concave back and are thickest at the bottom. The ends of the sides is bent in very slightly to hold a back plate in place, now missing. The chape is 39.9mm long, 26.3mm wide, and 5.3mm thick; it weighs 6.38 grams. The chape is most similar to Type II in the typological scheme published in the London Museum Medieval Catalogue (Ward-Perkins, 1940:285 Figure 87). It lacks the stepped central projection at the top and projecting knop at the bottom point but both could have been lost to very worn breaks. Ward-Perkins (ibid.) dates these chapes to the late 15th or 16th century based on contemporary illustrations and dateable contexts of excavated of chapes from Fetter Lane, London. He suggests (ibid: 284) "Metal dagger chapes were only used on the sheaths of military daggers or of the more elaborate forms of civilian dagger. The great majority of surving leather sheaths belonged to ordinary knives or knife-daggers and these have no metal terminal."
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