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Description: | A cast copper-alloy front-piece from an incomplete two-piece dagger scabbard chape of Post-Medieval (16th-century) date. The object is broadly trapezoidal in form, narrowing towards the terminal which is rounded with a central knop. At the attachment end is a broadly oval removal leaving a curved stub at each corner. Below it is a transverse moulded rope work panel bordered above and below by a transverse ridge. Following the base of the artefact is a raised, curved line with scrolled terminals. Above is a knotwork motif of three loops that connect at a central lozenge, with a T-shaped top above. The slightly bevelled sides feature file marks. The sheet back plate is now missing; at the join there appears to be a white metal solder. Chapes of similar form with the same decorative motif can be found illustrated in de Reuck (1991, sixteenth century) and on this database, e.g. HAMP-22C5B8. This artefact is now an orange/brown colour with overlying patches of mid-green corrosion product and a possible black lacquer coating.
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