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Late Bronze Age sword scabbard chape
Fragment of bag-shaped chape, lozengic in section, with median and marginal pairs of vertical grooves and diagonally aligned perforations near the centre.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
31.62/63
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): 45.5
maximum width
(mm): 48.0
maximum thickness
(mm): 15.0
Weight
(g): 61.1
Material
Copper alloy
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