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Description: | Cast copper alloy late Medieval to early post medieval scabbard chape, sub-triangular with the slightly curved sides tapering to a small rounded terminal knop. Hollow-backed, the sheet back-plate is missing. There are three pointed projections at the upper edge further deffined by and separated from each other by filed grooves, below which are eleven circular apertures arranged slightly irregularly in a group of two, three, one, three and two, the arrangement giving the impression of three crude fleur-de-lis. The upper decorative border is separated from the lower part of teh chape by a narrow transverse rib, below which is a long slot terminating in a now openwork trefoil which would originally have been four separte apertures (three circles and one slot), the edges of which have now broken through.Two very similar examples are illustrated in Ward Perkins; London Medieval Catalogue (1940); Pl.LXXX, nos.9 and 10 and a good examples of a Ward Perkins (1940) Type V (p285; fig 87). Late 15th - 16th century.Measuring 50mm long, 30mm wide, 5.7mm thick. Weight 10.28g.
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