Open-work bronze scabbard-chape. On the back there is a plain sub-triangular piercing, but on the front there is a more elaborate opening with a slight raised border accompanied on the top by a number of small triangular beds for missing enamel. Also preserved is a fragment of one of the two wooden plates or stiffeners, which would originally have been covered in leather.

The scabbard decoration is in the form of a dolphin. It would have formed a loop on the protective sheath for a sword.

Source: George C. Boon, 'Finds from Castell Collen Roman Fort 1911-13', Radnorshire Society Transactions (1973).