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Unique ID: WILT-CBCE76
Object type certainty: Certain
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A copper alloy Early Medieval to Medieval (c.AD 900-1400) scabbard chape missing the central rivet. The chape is V-shaped and triangular in plan, tapering down to a triangular knopped point at one end. The two arms are rectangular in cross-section, slightly bent in the middle, and have parallel sides extending outwards to diamond-shaped terminals. The central triangle is hollow and has a circular perforation at the top centre where the rivet would have been. Decoration can be seen on one side of the chape as two thinly raised ridges beginning at the end point and both running individually up the arms. Flanking both sides of the raised ridges are faint incised dots.
Length: 41.98mm; Width at top: 27.76mm; Width at bottom: 3.54mm; Thickness: 5.98mm; Weight: 5.30g
See NMS-7F98C4 on this database
Class: chape
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 900
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Quantity: 1
Length: 41.98 mm
Width: 27.76 mm
Thickness: 5.98 mm
Weight: 5.3 g
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Other reference: SSWM 4818
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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