Dagger scabbard frame
This is the frame of a ‘scabbard’, a cover to carry and protect a dagger. The frame was covered with wood and leather. This important fragment shows scabbards of this type continued to be used by the Roman army into the late first century.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 854/1989/1
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- iron
- Common Name
- dagger scabbard frame
- Simple Name
- sheath
- Period Classification
- Roman (43-410)
- Production Year Low
- 50
- Production Year High
- 75
