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Hi all......I've not been finding much lately 
so this post is down to my detecting partner Michael, it came from our Villa field just before Christmas and has been away for the last three weeks at York Museum. It's a Viking Dagger Chape, dagger chapes are quite a common detectorist find in the UK but this on from the 10 Century is the first of this kind to be recorded in the UK. Dagger chapes are the part of the daggers sheath located at the bottom to prevent the dagger cutting through the mane part of the sheath that would have been made from leather, they come in different forms this one depicts a beasts head, I have added a couple of small finds from one of my last outings also including a nice 14 Century Jetton with the Kings head defaced so it couldn't be circulated as a coin 
so this post is down to my detecting partner Michael, it came from our Villa field just before Christmas and has been away for the last three weeks at York Museum. It's a Viking Dagger Chape, dagger chapes are quite a common detectorist find in the UK but this on from the 10 Century is the first of this kind to be recorded in the UK. Dagger chapes are the part of the daggers sheath located at the bottom to prevent the dagger cutting through the mane part of the sheath that would have been made from leather, they come in different forms this one depicts a beasts head, I have added a couple of small finds from one of my last outings also including a nice 14 Century Jetton with the Kings head defaced so it couldn't be circulated as a coin Attachments
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