Record ID: SF10641
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A possible incomplete copper-alloy scabbard chape. This chape is V-shaped, two bars of flat copper-alloy forming the arms of the V, it measures 35mm in length. The base and the top of the V-shape are missing due to old breaks. One arm of the V has survived for a greater length than the other and at its tip it curves round, however this curve is also missing, so it is difficult to say what it would have been for. The date of this possible chape is unknown.
Created on: Thursday 20th February 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blo Norton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-64B184
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet copper-alloy probably Medieval to Post Medieval scabbard chape dating from AD 1300 - 1600. The object is a tube of of sheet metal construction bent round into the form of a truncated cone. On the reverse, is the join with a longitudinal overlapping seam. The attachment end is plain and decorated below with two transverse grooves. It is truncated and broken at the other end. There are two circular holes of 6.6mm diameter, one on each side, half way along the chape. The chape has a green patina and diagonal striations are visible. It has suffered some cracks and dents. It is …
Created on: Tuesday 21st April 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st April 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-7BF83A
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy fragment of uncertain date and attribution, possibly a fragment from a scabbard chape and dating from the Medieval or Post Medieval period. The fragment is triangular in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, with an oval-sectioned complete terminal and a wider and flat broken end, which would have connected to the larger object. The object is solid-cast, with a small fragment of an internal aperture or socket visible on the wide, broken end. The remains of this aperture or socket are irregularly shaped, in a quasi-trapezoidal plan, with an angled point on the …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd April 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-2975E6
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast and worn copper-alloy scabbard locket of uncertain date. Description: The locket is formed from an ovoid loop, with a flatt top and rounded crenalted base. Around the collar is slightly recessed simplified border. The locket would have formed the mouth of a scabbard via the oval hole in the centre of the locket. The locket is mottled dark brown and light green. Measurements: 31.94mm long, 17.22mm wide, 11.19mm thick and 15.18g in weight. Discussion: This locket despite its distincitve form is from an uncertian period of time, Later scabbard chapes from the Medieval-Mod…
Created on: Monday 19th November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-EFA9EC
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy artefact, possibly part of the mouth of a sword or dagger scabbard of unknown date, AD 43 - 1800. It is also possible that it is a hilt plate from a dagger or sword, perhaps from the lower or upper guard. It is an incomplete plate of copper alloy. The complete end is squared, and the long sides are convex, so when complete the plate would have been sub-elliptical. There is a pointed oval slot in the centre of the plate, also incomplete. This seems wider that would be neccessary for the blade of a weapon to fit into snugly, so use as a scabbard frgament seems…
Created on: Monday 27th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 14th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-1DA777
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large chape, probably for a scabbard but possibly also for a staff. The shape resembles an open-tipped cone. It tapers from the wider, broken end to the narrower, neat end. There is ribbed decoration covering the chape in a lengthways direction. Originally circular in section, the wider end has been crushed, causing distortion of the shape and cracking along the sides of the object.
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: CAM-435BA6
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The upper mount or locket of a scabbard, possibly Roman in date.
Created on: Thursday 16th August 2007
Last updated: Saturday 28th December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Wratting Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-D69984
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular copper alloy scabbard chape for a Spatha sword. The Spatha, originally used by Roman cavalry units gradually replaced the infantry Gladius in the third and fourth centuries AD. At this time, pointed scabbard chapes had also fallen out of use, so it is likely that the object dates to this period. On one side the chape has a large rivet(?) hole of 6.39mm diameter at the top and a small hole of 3.54mm diameter in the middle that appears contemporaneous with the manufacture of the object. On the other side there is a small hole of 3.34mm diameter, roughly in alignment with the la…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 20th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flag Fen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-0880E4
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The cast, copper alloy mouth from a scabbard of Roman date, probably first to second century 43-200AD. It is decorated with two narrow, transverse grooves just below the opening for the blade; this opening is of a narrow lozenge shape. The small dimensions of the opening suggest that the scabbard may have been for a dagger. Some ferrous corrosion is evident around the opening. The scabbard 59.3mm long, 30mm wide and 14.3mm thick. It weighs 55.5gm. A similar scabbard mouth, found in Britain and dating from the first century AD, is illustrated in Jackson, 'Camerton: the Late Iron Age an…
Created on: Thursday 23rd October 2008
Last updated: Sunday 10th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-6A2034
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete sword-scabbard chape, with elaborate openwork decoration. The upper part is missing (recent breaks), and there are two small attachment holes. The edges of the openwork apertures on the front, which are arranged symmetrically, have been chamfered by filing. A channel, to accommodate the base of the scabbard, runs around the curving base and sides, but stops below the narrower upper part. Width 50.5mm. Surviving height 44mm. Height at rear 31mm. Thickness 7.5mm. Width of channel 4.5mm. This type of openwork design is not normally encountered on 3rd-century sword chap…
Created on: Friday 22nd May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 29th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wighton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D4A676
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast object, flat on two opposed faces, rounded on three faces and broken at the sixth. The interior is part hollow and part missing. On one flat face there are parts of two apertures. Possibly a 3rd-century dagger scabbard chape terminal, cf. Bishop and Coulston 2006 fig. 104 no. 1. >13mm x 18mm x 8.5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 27th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 10th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-27BA21
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman Chape: Complete cast copper alloy sword or dagger chape possibly for a spatha style sword. The chape is peltiform in shape and consists of a front and back sheet with a recessed spacer between. The front and back sheets are identical and have a bi-lobed base with 3 projections above, each having a rivet in the terminal for attachment to the scabbard. The two outer projections of the chape plates are bi-foliate in outline with a pointed outer finial and inner circular finial with the central projection solely have a circular finial - it is these three circular finiales which carr…
Created on: Wednesday 30th March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 14th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Besthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-CEE7D2
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman peltate chape, dating from the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. It has been cast in one. It is complete with the front and back plate being identical. The design is peltate shape with two openwork petae on the face. The chape has been squahed slightly and so the top edges are nearly touching and one arm has a crack in. Similar examples were found at Housesteads and South Shields Roman forts and these items are usually related to military activity. This is an identical parallel in an example from Caerleon (Chapman, 2005: p. 14, no. Bb01; Bishop and Coulston, 1993: fig.…
Created on: Monday 7th June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 21st June 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-21E084
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy sword-scabbard chape of Roman date, 2nd-3rd century. The chape is incomplete, but was a pelta-shaped type. The rounded body and one arm remain, with the base of a central upright and the opposite arm remaining. There is iron corrosion on the inside base of the chape.
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2011
Last updated: Monday 22nd August 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-E4F9B5
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman: An incomplete cast copper alloy scabbard runner, of Roman dating (1st to 4th Centuries AD). The scabbard runner is sub rectangular in plan, and irregular in section. It consists of a tapering chamfered shank, with a saltire incised on the trefoil terminal. Two short incomplete shanks are present on the reverse. It measures 60.94mm in length, 7.84mm wide and 16.71 mm thick. It weighs 8.1 grams. A similar example has been published as #515 in Allason-Jones, 2008, chapter 11. Scabbard runners of this type are fairly common in the northern provinces from the 1st Century onwar…
Created on: Wednesday 31st August 2011
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
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Record ID: NMS-6F16E1
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy sword scabbard chape, the lower part of the front face in delicate condition with parts of the surface covered by adherent soil. Decoration consists of a median rib and an offset running parallel to the circular base and edge. Closely paralleled by finds from the German limes (Oldenstein 1976 Taf. 19 and 20). See also an apparently smaller example without stated provenance, which is decorated, as the German chapes, in its upper part with two pelta-shaped openings (Appels and Laycock 2007, 49 figs. AA5.31-2) for a spatha, a long, two-edged cavalry sword without …
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Friday 15th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP687
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Rounded end with extensions at both sides and in the centre. Joined with double curving bar. Damaged on upper and lower surfaces.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 26th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HAMPSHIRE SWANMORE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM5360
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast sword chape with cut out decoration.
Created on: Monday 1st October 2001
Last updated: Friday 4th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LINCOLNSHIRE GAYTON LE WOLD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-B6CFF7
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy scabbard slide dating to the third century AD. The slide measures 32mm in length, 9mm in width. Similar to Example 1, Figure 99, Bishop and Coulston (2006) Roman Military Equipment, p 158.
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Somersham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-B8FC11
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy scabbard slide of Roman date. The incomplete slide has a tapering flat face which is broken at one end and the upper terminal is incomplete but may have had a knob or pointed-ridge decoration. This object was found by divers in the River Tyne downstream from the Roman bridge at Corbridge.
Created on: Monday 15th January 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quayside', grid reference and parish protected.