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Late Bronze Age sword scabbard chape
Section of lower half of original chape (i.e incomplete). The fragment has been deliberately cut or chopped.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
31.62/60
Find Information
Site Name: Crowther's Camp, Guilsfield
Date: 1862
Notes: Found during the digging of a field drain, packed tight as though originally deposited in a perishable container, on the south-east side of Rhuallt, 100m from Crowther's Camp, an Early Iron Age hillfort, near Guilsfield.
Measurements
maximum length / mm:77.0
length / mm
maximum width / mm:16.0
width / mm
maximum thickness / mm:12.0
thickness / mm
weight / g:32.7
Material
copper alloy
Location
In store
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