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Description: | An incomplete, cast copper alloy late Medieval or early Post Medieval scabbard chape, c. late 15th-16th century AD. Remains of the chape consist of a small portion of the sub-rectangular upper segment attached to a nearly complete sub-oval lower segment and an abraded end knop. The chape is generally C-shaped in cross section, with a flat perimeter edge surrounding the thin dished reverse face. The lower oval segment is decorated with moulded transverse and radiating ridges, and a portion of the cordate and trefoil openwork in the front. The chape would have had a separate back-plate, now missing, and possibly a scooped or serrated upper edge.For similar examples cf. Read 2001, Vol 1, Metal Artefacts of Antiquity, No 685; Ward-Perkins 1967 (reprint), Fig. 88, No. 9.
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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