Basic info

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Scabbard

Object category

Anglo-Scandinavian

Description

Openwork chape, Jellinge style decoration. Waterman 1959 says "a bronze scabbard chape with open-work ornament in the Anglo-Scandinavian Jellinge-style, which was found in Coppergate in a deposit containing material substantially of tenth-century date. This object is clearly an import from the Scandinavian north where sword-chapes, variously ornamented, are well known inViking times. A bird-motif in some form or another is represented on chapes from all the northern countries, but the Jellinge ribbon-style animal of the York example is less frequent. Sword-chapes are most frequently found in Sweden, including Gotland, and in the Viking colonies east of the Baltic, suggesting that this embellishment of the scabbard was an essentially eastern Scandinavian feature."

Production date start

866

Production date end

1066

Period

Anglo-Scandinavian