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LOT 0786
Romano-British Bronze Military Sword Scabbard Chape
2ND CENTURY A.D.
2 3/4 in. (26.8 grams, 71 mm).
Bronze fitting with repoussé rings and low-relief lines to rim, folded to fit onto a scabbard. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound by Ian Wilkinson, next to the Roman 'Fosse Way' road at Farnham, near Newark, Nottinghamshire, in 2004.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. Miks, C., Studien zur Romischen Schwertbewaffnung in der Kaiserzeit, I-II Banden, Rahden, 2007, I, for discussion of types.
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