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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy sword scabbard fitting or chape of Medieval to Post-Medieval date. The front face of the chape is preserved, but is has some damage to one side and is missing the back plate due to old breaks. It has a convex front face with moulded decoration comprising a rectangular open end that swells to a rounded base with central projecting knop. The open end of the chape has the remains of a crenellated top edge that is U-shaped in section, beneath which is a transverse band of openwork lozenges followed by a transverse ridge with multiple diagonal grooves that give the impression of corded decoration. The terminal end of the plate has a large central circular aperture, from which radiate moulded ridges giving a scalloped effect. At the very base of the chape is a central projecting globular knop. The entire object measures 34.75mm in length (bent), 24.36mm in width (bent), 5.32mm in thickness, and weighs 6.91g. This chape is of Medieval to post-Medieval date. It belongs to Ward-Perkins' Type III chapes with parallels noted in the London Museum Medieval Catalogue (Fig. 87; Pl. 80, no. 12). This indicates a date in the late-15th to 16th centuries AD for the current example.
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