dagger-sheath
- Museum number
- 1898,0618.1
- Description
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Copper alloy front plate and chape from a dagger-sheath. The sheath has a campanulate mount, and is decorated by straight incised lines. The chape end is crescentic, extending either side of the scabbard tip, with circular terminals on each side.
- Production date
- 600 BC - 450 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 342 millimetres
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Weight: 58 grammes
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Thickness: 6.30 millimetres (chape, max)
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Thickness: 8 millimetres (top)
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Width: 26.30 millimetres (chape, max)
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Width: 39.20 millimetres (top)
- Curator's comments
- Short iron daggers kept in sheaths appeared during the Hallstatt D period, after around 600 BC.
- Location
- On display (G50/dc10)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1980, London, BM, Celtic Antiquities from Gaul
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1898,0618.1