|
Date: |
|
Description: | Early Saxon copper alloy sword scabbard chape, cast-in one, with traces of white-metal coating on the front surface, fully round globular terminal below a collar, tear-shaped body with chamfered long sides, and three discoidal, pierced and countersunk lobes. The back-plate, which joins the front just above the collar, is pierced by a hole near its rounded top. This corresponds with the perforation in the uppermost lobe. All three lobes are empty, but there are tiny patches of white material in two of them. This may have been fixative for glass inlay. The dimensions are: length 45.5mm, width 16.5mm, thickness 10.5mm. A comparable chape comes from Burnham Thorpe (HER 32340, Gurney, D. Norfolk Archaeol. 44 (2004), 743, fig. 6 A) and another from the Isle of Wight (PAS IOW-C1B525, with comments by Barry Ager). See also an example from Thetford of similar form but with flat lobes (HER 24822, Andrews, P. East Anglian Archaeol. 72, fig.67 no.25). Possibly of Frankish origin but perhaps an English version. Dates to the late 5th - early 6th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
SCABBARD
Early Saxon copper alloy sword…
-
SCABBARD
A cast copper-alloy scabbard chape…
-
SCABBARD
A cast copper-alloy scabbard chape…
-
SCABBARD
A complete cast copper-alloy Frankish…
-
SCABBARD
A cast copper-alloy zoomorphic and…
-
dagger
Lower part of sheet medieval…
-
DAGGER
Lower part of sheet medieval…
-
STYLUS
Medieval/Post Medieval Incomplete lead object:…
-
STYLUS
Medieval/Post Medieval Incomplete lead object:…
-
Scabbard
Incomplete Medieval sword scabbard chape,…
|