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SCABBARD

Unique ID: NARC-BCF162

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A cast copper-alloy dagger scabbard chape dating to the late medieval or early post-medieval period. The image provided (see notes, below) depicts the front-piece (traditionally a relatively thick cast element), but does not show the thinner backplate which would have been attached using solder. It is therefore uncertain that this backplate survives. This is a 'common style' of dagger chape (Bailey 1995, 70), which curves round - apparently to the right, from the front view offered - following the shape of the blade. At that end it tapers, terminating in a knop. There is a large, central heart-shaped perforation, above which a transverse moulded band. Above, the attachment end features wavy serrations - five peaks and four troughs. A dagger chape of this form can be found illustrated in Bailey (1995, 71; ref. 4), also in Read (2001, 84/90; ref. 688); a similar artefact has been recorded on this database, PAS ref. KENT-998C73.

Notes:

This record has been produced from a paper record made by Paul Woodfield; as such the artefact has not been available for examination, including weighing or photographing. The creation of the image provided was clearly constrained by a lack of time but it has been used as it is the only such record of this artefact.

Class: chape

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1550

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 46 mm
Width: 26 mm

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Uncertain

Spatial metadata

Region: East Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: South Northamptonshire (District)
Parish or ward: Potterspury (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SP7543
Four figure Latitude: 52.080288
Four figure longitude: -0.906981
1:25K map: SP7543
1:10K map: SP74SE
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Bailey, G.	1995	Detector Finds	Chelmsford	Greenlight Publishing	70-71	4
Read, B.	2001	Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom	Langport	Portcullis Publishing	84/90	688

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Recording Institution: NARC
Created: 18 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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