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Description: | Incomplete and abraded medieval sword scabbard chape of folded copper alloy and of broadly U-shaped profile. Three D-sectioned arms are missing, and the fourth is incomplete. On the both faces there are two small notches flanking a larger rounded one in the top edge. Below this both faces carry engraved decoration now obscured by wear. Within a frame two transverse lines can be seen on one face and some form of curvilnear ornament on the other. Cf. Hinton, D.A. in Biddle 1990, 1082-3, nos. 4030-1 and de Reuck 1991, 3, top row. Extant height and width 23 and 21.7mm. 12th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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