Record ID: SWYOR-58746D
Object type: CHATELAINE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy object that may have functioned as a chatelaine, possibly dating from AD 1200 - 1300. It is sub-trapezoidal with a narrowed section near the shortest edge. The longest and shortest edges have a row of circular perforations and have shallow scalloped edges; there are three perforations (the outer two broken) along the shorter edge and four (one end one broken) along the opposite edge. Through the intact central perforation of the three, there is a strand of copper-alloy wire curled around the edge and bent into an S shaped chain link. It is attached to two further simila…
Created on: Friday 11th May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 14th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.