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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy scabbard chape for a sword or dagger, dating to the medieval period. The chape is two-thirds complete and can be described as a U-shaped chape with long side arms (only one of which remains) that terminate rounded ends with a small rivet hole through each side. Traces of one iron rivet remain. The opposing arm would have been the same and the rivets would have secured the chape to the leather sheath. The central part of the chape is mostly open, with a small and simple trefoil design extending upwards from the base on either side of the chape; the base of the chape is rounded and has a large rounded knob. Similar chapes have been recorded on this database and Ward-Perkins illustrates a similar chape but with a triangular central projection (1954:287). This example is from London and is dated to the early 14th century AD, so it is probable that the example recorded here is of a similar date, c. AD 1300-1400.
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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