Rights Holder: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service
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Unique ID: SWYOR-00E4D6
Object type certainty: Probably
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A fragment of a two-piece copper-alloy dagger scabbard chape. The front-piece is cast and terminates in a scallop form. Only the base of this survives. The grooves and ridges which create the effect of the shell radiate out from a recessed openwork aperture of uncertain shape. The sheet backplate is missing. In its form the chape has similarities with examples illustrated in Ward Perkins (1993, 285; fig. III), Cuddeford (1994, 40; fig. 76) and Bailey (1995, 70). Such parallels suggest a late fifteenth- or sixteenth-century date for this artefact. On many of these examples the front-piece has a rounded knop terminal below the scallop, which is not visible on this example. This artefact is now a pale green colour and is corroded and bent. This object was found near Towton Battlefield, so a date of 1461 is possible.
Class: chape
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.74 mm
Width: 17.37 mm
Thickness: 3.42 mm
Weight: 3.8 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2006 - Sunday 31st December 2006
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Other reference: PAS form number 1678
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: SE4737
Four figure Latitude: 53.827149
Four figure longitude: -1.287438
1:25K map: SE4737
1:10K map: SE43NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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