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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy late medieval to post-medieval sword chape (AD c.1450-c.1600), missing its back plate and a fragment from its top edge. The chape is tongue-shaped. Its edges are bent towards the rear so that the reverse is concave. The top edge is serrated. The area just below is decorated with four trefoils surrounded by circular indentations; half of the trefoils are missing as a result of an old break. This decorated area is separated from the rest of the object by a horizontal ridge decorated with diagnonal hatched lines. The area below the ridge is decorated with an openwork design of a trefoil extending downwards from a stalk. A ridge extends downwards from the end of the design to the tip of the object. A cyclindrical knob projects from the tip of the chape. The object has a greenish-brown patina. Overall the object measures 46.33mm long, 31.10mm wide and 5.46mm thick. It weighs 8.81g.See Read 2001, p. 90, Fig. 58 for similar examples.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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