Record ID: SUR-914768
Object type: SHEATH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragile and incomplete leather object, 80mm in length. The object has been folded in half and is sub triangular in shape, being open along the convex edge. One side of this edge is notably thicker than the other and is turned up, with a row of large and heavy-duty stitch holes of lenticular shape and up to 1.8mm in length; these continue around the corner and along the short open end. There is no evident decoration. Possibly part of a knife sheath or perhaps more likely (given the stitching pattern) the vamp from a shoe. The lack of decoration makes dating problematic, but…
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-206AC8
Object type: SHEATH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy with dark patina, mount fragment. Rob Webley kindly comments as follows: 'I think this is part of a medieval sheath chape. The form may now be classified as Type IIIa (Woods 2021, 101, fig. 7)'. Many thanks, Viking openwork mount, winged creature. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-1000 Height: 32mm, Width: 25.5mm, Thickness: 1.3mm, Weight: 4.45gms
Created on: Friday 2nd September 2022
Last updated: Monday 20th March 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-0C09A2
Object type: SHEATH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a copper alloy knife holder or sheath dating from the Early Post Medieval period. It is a delicate U shaped piece of sheet copper alloy, broken on all edges. It would have formed a cylindrical (rounded oval) sheath or scabbard for a knife, probably with a loop so it could be attached to a chain from the belt. The sheath is decorated with a band of white metal or silvering across the sheath. At one end it curves downwards. Compare examples on page 42 of Bailey's Detector Finds 5.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 7th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Nottinghamshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5AB0D5
Object type: SHEATH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy binding. Pressed metal binding for a hexagonal object; eight curving flaps appear to have been crimped to attach this object to another. This was possibly fastened to the mouth of a knife sheath or other leatherwork, for which this method of attachment appears apt; facetted knife handles in various materials were made through the Medieval period and could accompany such a sheath. A relict patina suggests the object is of some antiquity. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1400-1500. Length: 21.9mm, Width: 14.7mm, Thickness (of sheet): 0.5mm, Weight: 0.98gms.
Created on: Thursday 6th January 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 19th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'High Risby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0E2C11
Object type: SHEATH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Collar from sword or dagger sheath, cut and folded sheet with twin engraved bordering lines at mouth and lower edge with projecting trefoil and oblique engraved bordering lines, two vertical seams where back-plate attached on reverse and horizontal sheet loop for attachment. 19 x 40mm. 16th-17th century
Created on: Tuesday 22nd December 2009
Last updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Topcroft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-26D4B5
Object type: SHEATH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Leather sheath for a knife. The sheath was made from a single piece of leather folded round and stitched in a seam along its length. The external decoration is in vertical panels, one filled with diagonal lines and another with zig-zags arranged along the length of the sheath. These are separated by an empty vertical panel. There are three horizontal lines forming a border at the top edge. The sheath is broken at the bottom and and part of the tip is missing.
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tower foreshore', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYM1904
Object type: SHEATH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
knife sheath made from hollow cast/moulded lead. Completely oxidised surface, similar shape to expanded butt of rifle, linear, incised, unclear decoration on all external surfaces.
Created on: Friday 17th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HUMBERSIDE COTTINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.