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Medieval chape; rolled copper alloy lace tag of late 14th or 15th century. The chape is formed from a sheet of copper alloy, rolled into a tapering tube. It has an edge to edge seam along one side.
Length 42.4mm, diameter (at mouth) 7.7mm, weight 2.13g
Ref: See ‘Dress Accessories’, pages 281-290
Фотография предыдущего чейпа с другого ракурса.
Medieval sheet copper alloy unusually large lace chape (probably). Undecorated, tapering sheet chape with edge-edge join.
No fixing hole survives – there may have been single fixing hole at the proximal end, but part of the proximal rim is broken off; the distal end is also damaged. Length 63.3mm, diameter at top c.7mm & at base c.4.8mm, weight 4.35g.
Large Medieval possible lace chape with a butted seam, neatly pointed closed end, from which two small pieces have been excised before folding inwards, and the solder scars at both ends, indicating the former presence of binding rings.
A rather more sophisticated object than examples from London (Dress Accessories, 280 fig. 188). cf. an example from Winchester, identified as a ferrule, with a binding ring near the closed end (Biddle 1990, 1093 no. 4096). Length 78mm. Maximum diameter 8mm. 13th – 14th century.
Material: Copper alloy
Length: 78 mm
Diameter: 8 mm
Medieval chape of copper alloy. It is 30mm long (incomplete), has a maximum diameter of 16x12mm and weighs 8.06g (with compacted soil inside). Some of the black patina is missing and the end is broken.
The chape is constructed from a piece of copper alloy bent into a tappering tube with the two long edges of the sheet overlapping. Two rivets are located on the opposite side of the cylinder to this overlap.
Around the wide open end is an incised border of a line running parallel to the edge and the gap filled with short diagonal lines. Parallel to the overlapped edge are two incised scalloped lines. Around the lower rivet is another pair of scalloped lines which form half an oval, incomplete because of the break.
As suggested by Nick Griffiths, it may have been for a cord, used to prevent the end from fraying and to facilitate threading through corresponding eyelets. However, this is a very large example; diameters are usually around 2.5mm (Egan and Pritchard 283-4) although some artefacts identified as possible chapes reach 6mm (Egan and Pritchard 290). Alternatively, it may be a dagger chape, constructd from a reused object. However, in this case the rivets do not have a function.
The decoration suggests a date of 12th-14th century.
Dates MEDIEVAL (Certain) to MEDIEVAL (Certain), 1100 AD - 1400 AD
Length: 30 mm
Diameter: 16 mm
Weight: 8.06 grams
