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Description: | A Medieval to Post Medieval copper alloy sword or dagger chape. The object is triangular in plan and rectangular in profile and section, with a hollow interior. The longer side of the chape is more curved and the opposite edge more straight to follow the shape of the blade. The upper edge of the chape is serrated with three rounded lobes. The upper and middle lobe have a corresponding oval openwork aperture. Below the apertures there is a raised oblique rib that crosses the width of the chape and is 2.5 mm thick. The bottom of the chape has a small knop at its terminal that is 4mm thick. The edge of the back of the chape has a wide seam to enable soldering to the back plate, now missing. The upper surface is covered with coarse file marks running obliquely across the width of the chape, and the patina is a dark green.A very similar example, upon which this record is based, can be seen on the PAS database at: CORN-92A46E.See NMGW-6030D2 for a similar example which is dated from c.1450-1600.Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on page 90, fig.58, no.688, which is dated from the late 15th to the 16th century.
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