Description (Labels & Markings)
Old handwritten label adhered to back reads: 'Devils Dyke, Reach, 1848'.
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Display)
Previously mounted on patterned paper-wrapped display board, along with Z 30357, with handwritten labels reading 'Chape [crossed through] & Buckle (bronze). Devil's Dyke, Reach, Cambs. 1848. Camb. Ant. Soc. 1883.' and 'Bronze buckle and girdle end. Devil's Dyke, Reach, Cambs. C.A.S.'
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Accession register description for Z 30358: 'Bronze girdle-end.'
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Related Documents)
See catalogue card for drawing.
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for Z 30358: 'Incomplete.'
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Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected in 1848.
Event Date 1848
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
?Sword chape.
Event Date 24/8/2001
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Sword scabbard chape of cast copper alloy. Broadly triangular in shape, with bevelled sides and an openwork design consisting of two sub-rectangular cut outs and two circular cut outs, separated by a medial ridge. Narrow end has a rounded terminal knop. Wider end has decorative circular cutaways flanking a leaf shaped central projection.
Event Date 22/11/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Amendments / updates)
The period field of this record previously read 'Medieval'. Similar metal fittings, recorded in the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, are described as late Medieval to early Post Medieval (15th to 16th century) sword scabbard chapes. The description and period fields have been updated accordingly.
Event Date 22/11/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad