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Record ID: NMS-4209A2
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval - post-medieval copper alloy scabbard chape. Notched and curved upper edge, straight sides before expanded and curved lower half with trefoil aperture and radiating grooves. Pellet terminal. Incomplete sheet back-plate with small circular punched impressions. Length 43mm. Width 32mm. See DeReuck (1991, 26, no. 14). Circa 1485 - 1600.
Created on: Friday 18th December 2015
Last updated: Friday 18th December 2015
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Record ID: NMS-5B3A1C
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy scabbard chape. Upper edge shaped to form pointed projections above multiple circular piercings, transverse rib and slot terminating in a trefoil aperture. Down-turned sides with traces of solder from missing back-plate. Terminating in a pellet. Length 46mm. Width 30.5mm. 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Monday 7th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 7th December 2015
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Record ID: NMS-127486
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy scabbard chape. Sheet with soldered seam, tapering from wider upper end towards missing tip, two notches at upper front edge, rear edge damaged. Possible fragment of preserved leather visible through broken narrow end. Surviving length 41 x 18mm. 15th - 18th century.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-01D31D
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy chape. Plain sheet, with overlapping soldered seam, cut into three points which are crimped together to form the narrow end. Single rivet or attachment hole at the upper edge. Triangular-sectioned and not apparently distorted, therefore possibly for a knife sheath. Length 41mm. Upper end 13 x 10mm.
Created on: Monday 21st September 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scarning', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-01A88B
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy openwork scabbard chape. Tongue-shaped, hollow-backed, with central trefoil projection at the upper edge and (from the base up) two circular, two rectangular and two circular apertures. Small rounded projection at the lower edge. Back-plate missing. Traces of white-metal coating or possibly solder around the edge. Length 49mm. Width 22mm. See de Reuck (1991, 27 no. 3, 6 - 9 and 11 - 4 and 18). Circa 1485 - 1600.
Created on: Monday 21st September 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scarning', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-024B96
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy scabbard chape. Bi-concave upper edge on the front and back face, the resulting exaggerated central projection broken. Tapering to a blunt terminal, with a shallow transverse rib on one face and a transverse groove across the base. Both faces are decorated with ring-and-dot, five on one face and six on the other. The chape is filled with corroded iron which has forced a split in the side. Surviving length 33mm. Width 20mm. Similar to 12th century examples in de Reuck (1991, 3, 6 and 9).
Created on: Thursday 4th June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st March 2017
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Record ID: NMS-F871C7
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval or post-medieval copper alloy scabbard chape, now broken and distorted. Hollow-backed, the back-plate missing, with a rounded lower half with radiating grooves on the front face and a pellet-like projection in the centre of the lower edge. There is a single central circular hole and transverse rib before a ragged break across further openwork at the upper edge. There is a black, burnt deposit on the reverse. Similar to examples in de Reuck, 1991, 26. Late 15th - 16th century. Width circa 25mm.
Created on: Thursday 16th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 16th October 2014
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Record ID: NMS-5CD591
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval or post-medieval sub-triangular copper alloy scabbard chape. Hollow backed, back-plate missing. Upper edge missing, broken across two openwork apertures the lower of which may be heart-shaped, tapering to a small rounded terminal knop. Surviving length 34mm. Width (reconstructed) 24mm. Late 15th - 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 28th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 28th May 2014
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Record ID: NMS-C597E3
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy scabbard chape. Convex fronted chape, the upper edge missing, with a prominant median rib to either side of which is an openwork slot with a ciircular aperture above and below. The sides taper smoothly to a rounded knop at the end of the rib. Reverse missing. Length 45mm. Width 22mm. See de Reuck (1991, 27, NOS.7 - 14 and 18 0 19. 1485 0 1600.
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Friday 21st March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-070AB3
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy scabbard slide. D-sectioned bridge, slightly concave on the reverse, with narrow, damaged flange along either side and the narrow lower end, cast in a rightangle at the upper end after which the slide is broken across a narrowing. Both upper and lower terminals are missing. See James (2010, 152, fig.89, no.533 - 543 and 545) for broadly similar examples. Surviving length 65mm. Width 11mm. Thickness 5.5mm. 3rd - 4th century. Find V.
Created on: Wednesday 11th September 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-4F4CB3
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy openwork scabbard chape. Tongue-shaped, Short rounded projection at terminal, inturned sides, reverse missing. Decoration consisting of three trefoil knops forming the upper edge with two rows of six blind holes below, two trefoil apertures above three longitudinal apertures above a third trefoil aperture. Length 61mm. Width 35mm. Cf. de Reuk (1991), 28, no.1. 1485 - 1600.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2013
Last updated: Friday 9th August 2013
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Record ID: NMS-27A6E4
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval or post-medieval chape, probably from a knife scabbard. Thin silver sheet forming triangular chape with folded tab at end. Single central piercing at surviving edge. Now incomplete and in three pieces with further cracks. Undecorated. Circa 14th - 16th century. Length 17mm. Maximum width 11mm. Thickness 3mm. Weight 0.74g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th November 2012
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oxborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EEF020
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver hollow pyramid mount, probably from a scabbard, set with slightly damaged square garnet on flat top. No evidence for the garnet being set on foil can be seen. The surface is rough and abraded. Two opposing faces are decorated with a groove around the edge within which are a pair of possible Style I legs, the toes facing towards each other. The third face is decorated with a grooved border around an arch, the ends of which are scrolled outward to form an omega shape. The fourth face is the most worn and may be another arch with scrolled ends or a trefoil knot (triquetra), again …
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Happisburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A61494
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold pyramid mount from sword, square base with flattened corners caused by triangular settings at the base of each corner with beaded wire on two sides, two of which contain garnets. Square setting for (missing) stone at apex. Hollow with two semicircular holes ( 7 x 3.5mm and 7.5 x 3.5mm) in base divided by a bar 2.5mm wide and c. 1.5mm thick. Constructed from two pieces of metal, one for the base and another for the sides. The join between the two edges of the sides can be seen on one face. Base 9.5 x 10mm, height 13mm, weight 5.08g. Early Saxon, late 6th - early 7th century
Created on: Wednesday 29th March 2006
Last updated: Monday 2nd December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Swaffham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6FF341
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval scabbard chape. One end (width 8mm) is now curved. From this the sides diverge so that 15mm from the end the width reaches 19mm, at which point only the edges continue as arms (both now broken). Between then the end is cusped and on both faces a round depression shows that the object was unfinished, and that a round grooved aperture, familiar at the attachment edges of 14th-century strap-ends, was intended. A very similar fragment, finished and decorated with rocker-arm engraving, was found at HER 29310 in 1992.
Created on: Tuesday 14th September 2004
Last updated: Monday 14th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Stratton', grid reference and parish protected.