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Description: | Incomplete scabbard chape, trapezoidal, cast in one piece broken where folded in two widthways (back part missing) with forked sides obliquely angled outward with perforated terminals, one contains an copper-alloy rivet, short body with central internal trefoil projection, median line flanked by five pairs of oblique engraved lines chevron-wise. Dimenstions >30 (reconstructed) x >38mm. Cf. Hinton in Biddle (1990) fig.348, nos.4030-1 and de Reuck 1991, p.3, top left and right. Norfolk finds of similar form include examples from Fransham (HER 24783), Heacham (HER 40265) and two from Bracon Ash (HER 40911). Dates to 12th-13th century.
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