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Description: | Incomplete Roman bone scabbard chape, late 2nd -3rd Century AD. A broken chape, rectangular in shape with a raised central ridge and a ridge running along its edge with a small pelta openwork design near to the top. When complete the chape would have been symmetrical with the peltate hole matched upon the opposite side of the central ridge The central ridge curls round the bottom of the chape. The object tapers slightly suggesting that the complete object would have been triangular in section. Originally one half of the the chape, it has broken in two. The bone has taken on a dark brown colour from its deposition environment. A close parallel can be found in MacGregor 1985 fig.86 and also in LON-8BAFE7 on the PAS database. Chapes of this type are found along the frontiers of the Western Roman Empire and MacGregor associates them with Auxilliary troops of Near Eastern origin.Length: 67.16mmWidth: 37.07mmThickness: 5.96mmWeight: 21.84g
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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