Curator’s blog
Discover a treasure trove of local history and some unusual artefacts in this regularly updated blog from our curator.
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A sword chape
It is always good to learn a new word and we learned the word chape when given some metal detector finds recently. The dictionary defines chape as the metal point of a scabbard. A scabbard, of cours...
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