Record ID: WILT-060DEE
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval to Post Medieval copper alloy scabbard chape, dating to c AD 1400 - 1600. Ward-Perkins (1940) Type III. It has a rounded lower part with small basal knop. This front part is decorated with radiating groves that emanate from a central collar or transverse raised raised ridge The collar is marked with a rope pattern, and a trefoil pierces the rounded part just below the collar. The top edge of this front face has a crenellated edge, just below which is a heart shape piercing. The sides of the chape have a flange facing inwards and ha…
Created on: Monday 19th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-851968
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy dagger chape of Medieval to Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1450 – 1600. Ward-Perkins Type III. Only the front plate of the chape survives which is convex and bears openwork and moulded decoration. The plate has a U-shaped base with a moulded scallop shell design on the upper surface. The upper end of the base expands into a sub-rectangular plate with folded back sides. The terminal end of the plate is crenallated. A heart-shaped perforation is present at the centre of the rectangular plate below which is a trefoil of circular perforations, now filled. The m…
Created on: Tuesday 13th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 15th June 2023
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Record ID: WAW-306A61
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval pyramidal scabbard mount likely dating AD 500-700. The object was shaped like a four-sided pyramid with a flattened apex, though it is now bent inward on the front side. The reverse is hollow, except for a single, integral transverse bar that runs across the base. The mount is undecorated, very worn, and has a largely light green and light brown patina. Pyramidal sword mounts largely date from the 6th to 7th centuries. Whilst a large number are recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, many of these are decorated. There are undecorated examples…
Created on: Friday 9th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 6th July 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-DD1C75
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, copper alloy dagger scabbard chape of late medieval date or early post-medieval date, about AD 1400 - 1600. It is formed from sheet copper alloy, rolled over to form a narrow, tapering tube. The lower end of the tube has been divided into three, forming triangular tabs which have been folded over to create a closed lower end with a blunt point. Where the ends of the rolled sheet of alloy meet they are overlapped and there is a single, longitudinal seam. There is a rivet hole near the broken upper end of the chape. The chape has a light green patina. It is 20.1m…
Created on: Monday 5th June 2023
Last updated: Saturday 22nd July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A02383
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete front or rear plate from a medieval copper-alloy sword scabbard chape. It is a single sheet, mostly flat, with five original edges: a pair of broadly straight and parallel side edges, an upper a concave edge and, at the bottom, a pair of straight oblique edges which would probably have converged on a rounded point but are now interrupted by a transverse worn break. All edges apart from the top and the break curve a little more than a millimetre rearward (or forward if this is a rear plate). Some edges are split and more heavily abraded than others. One lo…
Created on: Friday 2nd June 2023
Last updated: Friday 2nd June 2023
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Record ID: NLM-DCAFFA
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy scabbard chape, as kindly identified by the finder. Cast concavo-convex openwork display side to a scabbard chape with a rounded and radially grooved lower part with a basal knop, and an expanded trapezoid upper part. The lower part has a trefoil aperture which might have displayed a coloured leather scabbard, while the upper part has a similarly centrally placed heart-shaped aperture. The upper edge is engrailed. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1400-1500 Length: 37.3mm, Width: 25.8mm, Thickness (wall of casting): 1.8mm, Weight: 8.28gms
Created on: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 24th May 2023
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Record ID: DOR-8AE405
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy composite scabbard chape. It is asymmetrical with a straight side to the right and a convex curved side to the left which meet at a point at the base, giving the chape a sub-triangular shape. There is a rounded knop projecting from the point at the base. It has short right-angled sides and edges are rounded where they meet the front. The angled top edge is scalloped. On the front it is decorated with a moulded diagonal ridge on running parallel to and just below the top edge. Below it are three circular holes arranged in a triangle. The separate&…
Created on: Saturday 20th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 22nd June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-38DF02
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post-medieval scabbard chape formed from copper alloy sheet with an overlapping soldered seam which has been pulled apart towards the mouth. Just above the damaged base, which was probably cut and turned inwards, there are signs in traces of solder of a lost c.3mm-wide encircling band. Similar traces of a band are visible below the mouth immediately above a rivet hole. Weight 9.35g. Extant length 77.7mm. 14th - 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2023
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Record ID: SUR-B88091
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmentary and incomplete Medieval or early post Medieval sword scabbard chape, 58.9mm in length, of tapering trapezoidal shape and made from copper alloy sheet which has been cut and folded to join at an overlapping seam along the reverse. The terminal is flat with rounded edges. There is no apparent decoration.
Created on: Friday 28th April 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2023
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Record ID: LIN-A2E372
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper alloy scabbard chape for a sword of dagger dating from the 12th century in a late Urnes-style. The chape is hollow and cast in one piece with a semi-circular base with a small protruding terminal globular knop. Above on the front face is a pelta shaped openwork, with two upright arms terminating with trefoil heads; the concave curves are decorated with an incised marginal groove. Projecting from the central convex curve is a trefoil or plant ornamentation delineated by curvilinear grooves. Below the trefoil head is …
Created on: Thursday 27th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Tathwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-940D5E
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, cast copper-alloy scabbard chape of probable late Medieval to Post-Medieval date (c. AD 1400-1700). The chape is hollow and conical in shape. It is sub-triangular in pland and sub-oval in cross-section. The tapered end of the chape is now compressed (probably due to damage post deposition) but probably terminated in a globular knop. There are 3 circular perforations at roughly equidistant points sitting approximately 6.67mm below the mouth of the chape. The perforations have a maximum diameter of 2.93mm. It has a fairly rough patina and is brown-green in colour,…
Created on: Friday 14th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th April 2023
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Record ID: IOW-7FCAB8
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early Medieval cast copper alloy sword scabbard chape, c.AD 450-550. This chape is formed with a fully round globular terminal below a collar, tear-shaped body with chamfered long sides, and three circular and countersunk lobes. The internal face of these countersunk lobes each has a deep-sunk dot in the centre, which may have acted as an anchor point for any insets in these lobes. The back-plate joins the front just above the terminal collar, it is bent close to the front plate near the tip, which ends in a rounded point. All three lobes are empty …
Created on: Thursday 13th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 25th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-682D96
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy dagger chape of Medieval to Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1300 – 1700. The chape is made from a single piece of copper alloy sheet which has been cut and rolled to join at an overlapping seam along the reverse. Faint cross-hatched decoration is present along the sides of the chape and patches of silvering or white metal coating remains. The metal has a dark green patina and is in fair condition. The object is 66.1mm long, 20.1mm wide, 0.9mm thick and weighs 13.3g. Similar chapes are recorded on the PAS database. See: SUR-53F331, OXON-701045, SWYOR-F4F238 a…
Created on: Wednesday 12th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th April 2023
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Record ID: OXON-54524E
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy scabbard chape of post-medieval date. The chape is sub-rectangular in profile and cross section. In plan it is broadly an isosceles triangle, the short edge being the top of the chape from which the long sides extend in convex arcs converging to a rounded point marked the apex of which has a projecting rounded oval knop. The short upper edge appears to have had three projecting triangular knops below which is  a raised transverse border. The rightmost of these triangular knops is lost to an old break. The reverse has a lip around its edg…
Created on: Tuesday 11th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 26th July 2023
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Record ID: SUR-E807A9
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval copper alloy dagger chape, 36.7mm in length, which tapers to a leaf-shaped point. The front plate has a heart-shaped decorative cutaway and the upper edge has a decorative round cutaway in the centre, flanked by a small moulded rim. The back plate is missing. Circa late 15th/ 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 6th April 2023
Last updated: Thursday 6th April 2023
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Record ID: NLM-C188C5
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy possible scabbard chape. Cast flattened conical object retaining orange-buff material resembling a cement within its hollow interior, lightly patinated. Rust staining at the upper edge of the object might have arisen from contact with a blade. Suggested date: Late Medieval to Early Post-Medieval, 1350-1650 Length: 33.5mm, Width: 15.9mm, Thickness (wall): 1.6mm, Weight: 11.79gms
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulceby Cross', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-4152BA
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy sword scabbard chape, dating c. AD. 1400-1600.  The openwork chape has a rounded lower half with a knop terminal at the base and an upper, slightly flared  rectangular section. The front is convex and the rear is hollowed. The lower section  this section is decorated with a scallop shell- like design achieved by a series of radiating groves. There are three circular apetures at the centre top of this section, forming a trefoil (the lower aperture is larger than the upper two). The rectangular panel forming the top half of the chape is separ…
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 15th June 2023
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Record ID: DOR-DB8A19
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy scabbard chape. The chape is thickly cast. It is U-shaped with a closed rounded base terminating in a moulded, circular cross sectioned knop. The open ends have angled shoulders with a moulded knop at the apex on each side.  The front and back of the chapes are openwork, each with three vertical rows of two  elongated triangular apertures (in the two outer rows the apex of each triangle point inwards and in the centre row point outward). There are remnants of two circular attachment holes on aeach face of the chape, set about halfway down. Date: Medieval -…
Created on: Friday 24th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
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Record ID: BH-359E03
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sword or dagger scabbard chape, probably dating to the mid to late Medieval period (c.AD 1200-1500). Description: The chape is formed of a single piece of metal, which has been bent to form a U-shape in plan and a rectangle in profile, with the ends open but overlapping on the back.  The top third on the front of the chape has a small amount of decoration consisting of: two transferse lines of braid at the opening, surmounting a sub-pyramidal section, followed by a single transferse line of braid. &…
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-333C5B
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete late Medieval or early Post-Medieval copper alloy scabbard chape dating c. AD 1450-1600. The chape is hollow and cast in one piece with a semi-circular base with a small protruding terminal knop.  Above on the front face is a raised moulded collar decorated with incised oblique lines above which the chape body extends into a sub-rectangular open end with a deeply concave upper edge forming two narrow pointed sides. The front upper edge is slightly lower than the reverse. The front face is decorated with incised horizontal chevron…
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 3rd April 2023
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