Copper-alloy, 11.61 grams, 33.94 mm. Circa 12th century AD. A cast openwork chape for a leather sheath, of Woods's Type V. The design features a horseman modelled in the half-round advancing to the right, within a tracery of foliage. There is a single attachment rivet in the rider's waist and holes for two more on the lower edge. Woods has conjectured that the motif represents a hunting scene, and that the sheath to which it was attached held a hunting-knife. Reference: Woods, P. A Group of Late Saxon and Early Norman Dagger Chapes in Medieval Archaeology, (forthcoming). Very fine condition. Provenance: found Oxfordshire, UK.