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Description: | Copper alloy and Wood Scabbard Chape. Conical sheet metal chape, open at both ends and with a butted seam. The upper end has a scalloped edge, each lobe with a drilled or punched fixing hole of diameter 1.5mm. Decoration comprises rouletted arcs and triangles and a group of four circumferentially incised lines, all restricted to the upper wider part. Two splinters of wood of length 48mm were recovered from the chape by the finder in the course of his energetic attempts to restore the object, and he regards them as possibly part of the scabbard. However, neither is stained as might be expected had their survival been promoted by the proximity of the copper alloy chape; they could equally be adventitious insertions before his discovery. The elongated form and scalloped end are paralleled by a chape from 16th-century Norwich (Margeson 1993, pages 227-8, fig. 175 no. 1856). Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1600.Length: 90.3mm, Diameter: 13mm, Thickness: 0.7mm, Weight (without wood): 8.99gms.
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