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Description: | Copper alloy item, probably a scabbard chape. It appears to be made from two pieces of pentagon shaped copper alloy sheet. They are aligned point to point and soldered along two adjacent longer sides at the base with three shorter open sides. The two sides adjacent to the closed slides are thickened at the edge and bent inwards as though they might also have previously been soldered closed. The front is complete and decorated with an incised design of radiating lines with raised ribs between and a thicker groove running down the centre running from the open top to the closed lower sides. Incised lines follow the lower and upper edges. The back is damaged around the two shorter sides adjacent to the closed sides, the left corner is also missing to old damage. It is decorated with a chevron design with the points pointing downwards. It is 46.6mm long, 46.0mm wide and 21.8mm thick; it weighs 38.54 grams.Similar chapes are not illustrated in the usual sources but the general form appears similar to late Medieval and Post Medieval examples from the 14th to 16th centuries.
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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