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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy scabbard chape of probable Early-Medieval date. It is U-shaped in plan, formed from a single plate folded at its outer edge to create a front and back plate with symmetrical openwork decoration. The attachment end is missing due to old breaks. The decorative elements are zoomorphic in form, depicting a horse in profile running towards the folded outer edge. It has a flattened snout with transverse groove at its terminal end, small incised oval eyes, and short projecting ears. On both faces the body has a grooved border, with single groove running along the lower edge of the plate. At its centre the horses body expands, possibly to incorporate additional decorative elements that are now uncertain due to old breaks, and is decorated with three diagonal grooves that expand towards the base, where there is a triangular panel joining the horse to the horse to the base of the chape. A single separately cast copper-alloy rivet holds the front and back plates together at this triangular panel. The remainder of the object is now missing due to old breaks. It measures 18.38mm in height, 21.01mm in length, 4.42mm in thickness (folded, 1.27mm at the individual plate), and 3.53g in weight.This is an incomplete scabbard chape of Early-Medieval date, possibly an end protector for a knife scabbard. It finds close parallels in a number of examples recorded through the PAS (e.g. LIN-E5C477, SF-0E88A2, HAMP-1DA880 or WAW-03F886) and is of probable c.11th century AD date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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