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SCABBARD
Unique ID: HAMP-BE1E08
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment from a medieval copper-alloy openwork scabbard chape of the 'winged horse' type. The animal is standing on a bar representing the ground, and has two legs surviving. The front leg is bent and the other leg ends in a rivet hole that has been broken through. A long neck curves up to a head with a relatively short nose and two upright ears; the head is not flat, like the rest of the object, but naturalistically curves round with a hollow reverse. A narrow body joins the two legs; above the second leg is a sub-triangular protrusion, which based on other examples represents the wing of the horse Pegasus. The head is decorated with a groove between the ears and another across the nose. Much of the surface of the object is missing, but there are surviving patches on the legs and body of rows of double opposed punched triangles running down each leg, across the base of the protrusion, separating it from the body, and vertically from the base of the protrusion to the top. The breaks are old and worn and the object has a matt mid-green patina with small patches of surviving darker green surface.
Class: chape
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1080
Date to: Circa AD 1200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.7 mm
Width: 16.84 mm
Thickness: 4.08 mm
Weight: 1.08 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 9th December 2002
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
To be known as: Kings Somborne
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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