Record ID: SWYOR-0C7049
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy probable scabbard chape of possible Roman date, AD 43 - 100. It is triangular with a broken edge across the top which reveals an iron core. It is lentoid in cross-section. At the apex is a knob which is oval in cross-section, but flat on the front and back. There is a raised ring on the underside of the knob. There are no collars above the knop. The object is 35.2mm long, 27.8mm wide, 9.3mm thick and weighs 13.41g. This is more likley a Roman example due to the nature of the sharp V shape which is much more typical of a Roman Gladius rather than Iron Ag…
Created on: Monday 7th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
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Record ID: LIN-7896A2
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy object, probably a Roman sword scabbard chape or pendant dating to c.AD 100 - 200. It is pelta shaped or peltiform with a crescent-shaped lower edge that finishes with upturned heads that appear like confronted zoomorphic heads. A central integral rectangular band consists of two panels runs from the lower edge and widens slightly to the top (6.33 mm) as it passes in-between the zoomorphic heads. The two panels now contain corroded iron material; one side is completely covered with iron corrosion and the other only partially covered with a possible sub-circular riv…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd June 2021
Last updated: Thursday 23rd September 2021
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Record ID: NLM-387AD6
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible scabbard chape fragment. Cast hemispherical possibly openwork object fragment, with two possibly compass-drawn arcs on its display side. The back is flanged. A smaller and a larger oval hole appear to be part of an openwork scheme, though the roughness at the back of the object could admit the possibility that this is a failed casting. As a scabbard chape, this would have to come from the sheath for a broad-bladed weapon. This does not immediately commend a direct association with other funerary finds reported along with it. Suggested date: possibly Late Roman, 2…
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 17th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thoresway', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-7AFD28
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy scabbard slide. It is badly damaged, probably by recent agricultural activity, and has loss at either end. The remaining section comprises part of the rectangular, tapering body which is hemispherical in section. From one end, there extends a 4mm wide by 2.8mm thick rectangular protrusion ending in a ring terminal, which is broken with only short stubs remaining. On the underside of the body, there is a rectangular expansion, from which extends a 5.3mm long, 3.8mm diameter circular sectioned lug with a pointed tip. The fragment measures 30.5mm in length, is a maximu…
Created on: Saturday 15th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cadeby', grid reference and parish protected.

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
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Record ID: BUC-E61B48
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman copper alloy scabbard chape, dating to c. AD 200-300. The fragment consists of the lower part of the chape, and is one half of the object. It is V shaped, with one edge raised to contain the blade. One side is slightly longer than the other, and there are worn breaks at either end. In the centre of the chape there is a circular projection, which is flat on both sides. The chape has a dark green patina, and measures 28.6mm in length, 17.4mm in width, 4.1mm in thickness and weighs 3.32g Other Roman chapes can be seen in Nicolay 2007, page 335.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 11th September 2019
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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
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Record ID: SF-F50929
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman scabbard chape. It is a peltiform chape with hollow interior, all the attachment ends are now missing due to old breaks. It measures 41.28mm wide and has a surviving length of 21.93mm, the object weighs 7.55g. A very similar example exists ins Chapman. 2005. A Catalogue of Roman Military Equipment in the National Museum of Wales. Pages 14-15, no. Bb12. This reference cites no. Bb12 as being and incomplete example of no. Bb01 of which a similar example has been found in Suffolk, see SF-F763A1 (https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/645098). T…
Created on: Wednesday 18th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 20th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lidgate', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-ECA7BE
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy scabbard chape dating to the Roman period, c. 100-200 AD. It is pelta shaped in plan, demonstrating a crescent shaped lower edge and an upper edge consisting of two bevelled, semi-circular cut out sections that create projecting outer 'arms' on each side of the object, though the ends of these are broken away in old damage. The midpoint of the object between the two cut-out sections demonstrates a 'V' shaped notch, while the reverse of the chape is dished, missing its original sheet backplate. Preserved with an even greenish patina, it survives to a len…
Created on: Tuesday 6th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 20th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Layham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ASHM-35EFFC
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman scabbard fitting, dating from c. AD 150-300. The fitting has a looped terminal decorated with trilobed mouldings at its apex. Below the loop is a short collared neck which runs into a boxed section. This has a perforation through it to take an unknown fitting / attachment. Below the box extends a flat plate, on the opposing edge of the box to the suspension loop. The plate has broadly parallel edges but the base is broken and one side is now bent. There is no other decoration. Bishop & Coulston (2006:158 no.6) illustrates a similar object, which i…
Created on: Monday 8th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Childrey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-C6313B
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy scabbard chape, 33mm wide, 30mm high and 6mm thick with a weight of 9.68grams. The object is complete and is sub circular in form and rectangular in cross section. It consists of two plates joined together along the bottom half by a flat plain sheet, with the upper half open to accomodate a scabbard. Each sheet has identical decoration consisting of a plain 'pelta' shaped lower half from which emerges a central vertical bar flanked by a pelta shaped hole at each side. The bar terminates in a trefoil projection, formed of a central triangular terminal and two curved …
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 21st June 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-E28F65
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy sword scabbard chape of Roman date, AD 100 - 200. It is pelta shaped in form, having a crescent shaped lower edge and an upper edge consisting of two bevelled, semi-circular cut outs (biconcave). Each end of the crescent is marked with a V shaped notch and there is a further notch in the end of the central projection between the two cut outs, leaving the three upward pointing projections as bifid. The reverse of the chape is hollow. The chape has a smooth, dark brown patina. It is 22.4mm long, 38.1mm wide and 6mm thick. It weighs 17.05gm. The sheet backplate is missing.…
Created on: Tuesday 19th July 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 19th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-CB328A
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy openwork sword scabbard chape of shield-shaped outline with three apertures on the front and a largely open reverse with scars of a cross-bar near the top edge. Decoration on the front comprises a horizontal row of nine triangular cells above the upper aperture and two larger triangular cells below it. All (apart from one in the row) contain red enamel or traces thereof. The top edge is gently concave on both sides of three small central projections. Closely paralleled by examples in Housesteads and South Shields Museums which were considered to be Hadrianic or later…
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
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Record ID: LON-A207C3
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman bone scabbard chape, late 2nd -3rd Century AD. A broken chape, rectangular in shape with a raised central ridge and a ridge running along its edge with a small pelta openwork design near to the top. When complete the chape would have been symmetrical with the peltate hole matched upon the opposite side of the central ridge The central ridge curls round the bottom of the chape. The object tapers slightly suggesting that the complete object would have been triangular in section. Originally one half of the the chape, it has broken in two. The bone has taken on a dark bro…
Created on: Wednesday 4th November 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 8th March 2017
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Record ID: BM-430191
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an openwork copper-alloy fitting, possibly a box fitting dating to the late second or third century AD. The fragment comprises a small flat trapezoidal plate from which there extend two trumpet motifs, creating an openwork pattern. The fragment measures 18mm in length, 19mm at its widest and 1.5mm in thickness. An alternative identification may be a scabbard fitting from a small dagger (Hoss 2018, pers. comm.)
Created on: Monday 31st August 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2019
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Record ID: BM-E02976
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy object, possibly the terminal of a scabbard slide of Miks' 'Delphin' type (Miks 2007, 289-292) dating to the mid second to very early third century AD. The object comprises a bar which is rectangular in plan and section which extends to a terminal plate which resembles a leaf with two curled extensions, possibly intended to represent a dolphin's tail. From the underside of the terminal plate, there extends a circular-section tapering lug. The stud measures 30mm in length and 15mm in width. The circular section stem tapers to a point and is a maximum of 3mm…
Created on: Friday 14th August 2015
Last updated: Thursday 10th January 2019
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Record ID: BM-2E207E
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an unidentified object, possibly the looped terminal from a scabbard slide dating to the second or third century AD. The fragment comprises a flat openwork plate, comprising two semi-circular tendrils which meet in the middle. The object measures 11mm in length, 16mm in width and 2mm in thickness. Look also at terminals from scabbard slides of the third century AD.
Created on: Thursday 18th December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 27th February 2020
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Record ID: BM-253F75
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy scabbard slide dating to the second or third century AD. The fragment comprises a rectangular, tapering body, which is hemispherical in section. Both ends of the body are broken. At one end, there is a small rectangular extension which extends from the underside of the body. The head loop is missing. The fragment measures 44mm in length and a maximum of 10mm in width. It has a thickness of 2mm. It weighs 6.4g.
Created on: Thursday 30th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2018
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Record ID: BM-24CC66
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy scabbard slide of Miks' 'Ringkopf' type (Miks 2007, 301ff) dating to the late second or third centuries AD. The fragment comprises part of the rectangular, tapering body. The body is hemispherical in section. At one end, there extends a ring terminal, which is decorated with two opposing expansions. On the underside of the body, there is a rectangular expansion, from which extends a circular section lug. The fragment measures 64mm in length, a maximum of 8mm in width and a thickness of 2mm. The expansion measures 6mm in thickness. The scabbard slide weighs 9…
Created on: Thursday 30th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 10th January 2019
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Record ID: BM-23B736
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy scabbard slide dating to the second or third century AD. The fragment comprises the rectangular, tapering body of the slide, which is trapezoidal in section. From the underside of the body at one end, there extends a rectangular projection,which is worn and broken. At the other end, a further small projection extends at right angles from the body of the slide. This is also broken. The fragment measures 53mm in length, 9mm in width and a maximum of 3mm in thickness. It weighs 5.4g.
Created on: Thursday 30th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2018
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