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SCABBARD
Unique ID: BERK-53FDF6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper alloy scabbard chape for a sword or dagger, dating to the medieval period. The chape is two-thirds complete and can be described as a U-shaped chape with long side arms (only one of which remains) that terminate rounded ends with a small rivet hole through each side. Traces of one iron rivet remain. The opposing arm would have been the same and the rivets would have secured the chape to the leather sheath. The central part of the chape is mostly open, with a small and simple trefoil design extending upwards from the base on either side of the chape; the base of the chape is rounded and has a large rounded knob. Similar chapes have been recorded on this database and Ward-Perkins illustrates a similar chape but with a triangular central projection (1954:287). This example is from London and is dated to the early 14th century AD, so it is probable that the example recorded here is of a similar date, c. AD 1300-1400.
Class: chape
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 47.83 mm
Width: 26.46 mm
Thickness: 13.5 mm
Weight: 22.9 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2013.932
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
Parish or ward: Moreton Morrell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP3256
Four figure Latitude: 52.20130673
Four figure longitude: -1.53319847
1:25K map: SP3256
1:10K map: SP35NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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