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SCABBARD
Unique ID: CORN-351D59
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast copper alloy sword scabbard chape, that is a waisted keyhole chape in plan, and sub-rectangular in profile and section. The upper edge is serrated, and below this is a raised rectangular frame with a band of openwork in the form of four diamonds with it. The frame is bordered by a transverse ridge with incised oblique lines making it appear like ropework. The lower section of the front plate is circular with radiating ridges from the centre. Below this section is a rounded basal knop. The back plate of the chape is missing and there are taces of black lacquer on the outer face of the chape, where the decoration is raised.
Bailey (1997) illustrates a similar scabbard chape on pages 86-7, which is dated from the 16th century.
Ward Perkins (1993) in the London Museum Medieval Catalogue 1940 illustrates a similar scabbard chape in Plate LXXX, no.12, and also Type III on page 285, fig.87, which is dated from the late 15th to the 16th century.
Read (2001) illustrates a similarly waisted chape with openwork on page 90, fig.58, no.685, which is dated from the late 15th to the 16th century.
Class: chape
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 38 mm
Width: 23 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 23rd November 2014
Rally details.
This object was found at Plymouth Pinpointers at Port Eliot
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: St. Germans (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SX3557
Four figure Latitude: 50.38967407
Four figure longitude: -4.32253134
1:25K map: SX3557
1:10K map: SX37NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey, G. | 1997 | Detector Finds 3 | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | 86-7 | ||
| Read, B. | 2001 | Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom | Langport | Portcullis Publishing | 90, fig.58, | no.685 |
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