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English: Earliest Iron Age, Hallstatt scabbard chape of winged form and of Prüllsbirkig type (Cowen's 1967 Type A1) and of Hallstatt C date, probably dating to c. 800 - 600BC, corresponding to Llyn Fawr metalworking tradition, and Needham's (1996) Period 8. The scabbard chape is near-complete with some peripheral loss but is in two conjoining fragments (with a combined length of 99mm, a depth of 44mm and a weight, including some sediment of 28.0g). The wing terminals converge to a point, now corroded on both ends. The underside of each wing is gently convex but showing no sign of recurving. The chape gradually narrows to the tips, being thickest at its midpoint (with a thickness of 12.2mm). One face has a near-complete section near the chape base and displays a slight, outward-turned lip or flange (with a depth of 2.0mm, where the chape has a length of 13.6mm). The encircling lip would have continued around the mouth of the chape, which is of pointed-oval form (35mm long and 5.8mm wide). The chape has broken at the end of the mouth on one side. Beneath the mouth lip, the chape is flat (with a length of 6.0mm), the upper part of which has been perforated with two holes on each side (2.4mm below the mouth and with a diameter of 1.1mm) to facilitate attachment to the scabbard. Beneath the flat upper part is a stepped moulding to the rounded basal section. There is no applied decoration on the chape and the surface has a dark-green patina with filling striations discernible in areas. Other areas have a pale green corrosion. Hallstatt Winged scabbard chapes are not frequent discoveries, this example appears to be the first recorded from Wales. In Britain, Cowen (1967) and O'Connor (1980) both list four examples of Prüllsbirkig type, or Cowen's Type A1 with an eastern-English and largely southern distribution, from Teversham, Cambridgeshire, an example within the Undley hoard from Lakenheath, Suffolk, and from the Thames at Isleworth and Teddington, both in Middlesex. A further Prüllsbirkig variant is recorded from Ebberston, Yorkshire. It is unclear whether other winged chapes have been discovered since 1980 but only one other chape of the type is recorded on the PAS database at the time of writing (CAM-DD5580) found in East Cambridgeshire.