Record ID: CORN-F74009
Object type: CHAPE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silvered sheet copper alloy scabbard chape from a sword or dagger, 'V'-shaped in plan and sub-rectangular in cross-section​. The sheet has been folded around what looks to be a thin layer of leather, but there is no extant evidence that the edges were joined and the upper edge is curved and not open, which is unusual for a chape. The sheet itself is 0.6 mm thick. ​The surface has light green corrosion products and areas of silvering which remain on both faces of the chape. Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on page 90, fig.58, no.678, which is dated from the late 15th to…
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2017
Last updated: Sunday 29th January 2017
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Record ID: CORN-1599CC
Object type: CHAPE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt sheet copper alloy scabbard chape for a sword or dagger, 'V'-shaped in plan and sub-rectangular in cross-section. The sheet has been folded and joined at a vertical seam on one side, which has now torn away as a vertical strip, and the upper edge is engrailed or scalloped. Below the upper edge is a pair of circumferential parallel transverse grooves that are 2 mm apart. The metal is reddish brown with light green corrosion products and patches of gilding remain around the incised decoration and at either end of the chape on both faces. Read (2001) illustrates similar chapes wi…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd March 2016
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Record ID: CORN-7E8391
Object type: CHAPE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy chape, conical in plan and oval in section, with two extant iron rivets, 3 mm in diameter, at either side of the mouth of the chape, just 2.5 mm below the upper edge. There is some iron corrosion product around the rivets and inside the mouth of the chape, along one edge, which may be obscuring a small amount of organic material that has been preserved within it, perhaps part of the leather scabbard. The sheet is folded and overlaps at the back of the chape, and the area where it has been soldered together has since cracked along one edge of the remains of the lead …
Created on: Monday 5th November 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th November 2012
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