Description
We are delighted to offer this scabbard as part of our new In Stock range.
The Scabbard is built with a Sheep skin top lined Beech wood core with integral strap slide (cast Brass) and covered with Pit Tanned Red Deer leather which is hand sewn using natural linen thread. Chape is UK made small batch lost wax cast.
The Belt is made from Pit Tanned Red Deer, folded and hand sewn with linen thread & fitted with UK made small batch lost wax cast fittings.
This scabbard will accommodate a blade up to:
Blade width at Cross guard – 50mm
Blade with at point of rounding – 30mm
Blade Length: 29″
****Please note that the leather is natural veg tan which has been dyed with modern dyes to imitate spruce bark tanage****
Suitable for portrayal of a 10th C ‘Anglo-Scandinavian’ persona.
This is accepted for use within:
The Vikings
Regia Anglorum.
Many other Groups and Societies also accept these for use, if in doubt please check with your group/society Authenticity/Provenance Officer or refer to your kit Guides. If you would like to add your Group or Society to the above list please let us know.
Provenance:
Scabbard construction follows examples from the period finds from the 9th – 11th C.
Leather and Leatherworking in Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval York – Q.Mould, I.Carlisle & E.Cameron
Fittings- Anglo-Scandinavian, various detector finds.
