Sheath for a bayonet. It is predominately leather with a metal tip and opening. It is oval in section and pointed. There is a stitched seam along its length on one side. At the metal opening there is an extending piece of metal with an oval socket. For the bayonet see 1966.1.143 .1 [AB [OPS Move] 12/6/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Sheath for a bayonet. It is predominately leather with a metal tip and opening. It is oval in section and pointed. There is a stitched seam along its length on one side. At the metal opening there is an extending piece of metal with an oval socket. For the bayonet see 1966.1.143 .1 [AB [OPS Move] 12/6/2017]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England
Cultural groups: European
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Marryat; PRM source Ipswich Museum; PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1890
Date collected: By 1948
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1966
Materials and processes: Material Metal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Forged (Metal), Process Stitched, Process Stamped, Process Stapled
Dimensions: Depth: max 30 mm, Width: max 39 mm, Length: max 323 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1966.1.143.2 Other numbers: 1948.214 [bayonet] [1948].297 [sheath]
Research and responses: This firearm is as likely to have been used in England as in any other part of the British Isles and I have therefore included it in the English ethnography project [AP 25/07/2006]

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