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Description: | A Post Medieval cast copper alloy (sword) scabbard chape of scallop shell form with a dark green patina, dating from about AD 1450 - 1550. It is 26.3mm long, 12.1mm wide and weighs 1.85 grams.The object is less than 50% complete with only its left hand side surviving. The surviving part is a sub rectangular form, rectangular in section and with a hollow underside. Its lower section is rounded and decorated to resemble a scallop shell, having radiating linear depressions. Its upper centre has two holes, the lower of which is incomplete and offset to form what would have been a triangle design of three holes at 2mm diameter. They are sat below a raised transverse band, 4mm wide, which appears to taper towards its centre, where it is 2mm wide. Above this, the object is rectanglular in form and has the remains of a 'heart' shaped cut out. The chape would have had a sheet backplate soldered to the reverse of the cast sides, but this is missing.Compare similar examples PAS record ID: GLO-B1FD64 and LEIC-9E97A3. See also WMID-F92D96 which is very similar in design, and which notes that: Similar chapes have been catagorised as a type III, by Ward-Perkins (1993, 285, fig III). Other examples have been published by Bailey (1995, 70). All are considered to be Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval in dating (c. AD 1450 to c. AD 1550).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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