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Description: | Cast copper alloy probable medieval purse frame fragment. One end of the frame is slightly rounded. The frame then gradually expands until it begins to again taper where it is broken (Width 6.3-8.6-8.1mm). The frame is broadly rectangular in section, although the upper surface is slightly convex. The upper surface is decorated with 15 pairs of parallel incised grooves. In each pair the grooves are approximately 2mm apart. At the narrowest end the first two pairs of grooves are transverse. The next pair is more oblique so that one end of the first groove is almost adjacent to the second groove of the previous pair. The next pair is still more oblique, with greater distance between this and the previous pair of grooves. The following 3 pairs become gradually more oblique and further apart from the preceding pair until the grooves are at an angle of approximately 45?? to the edge of the frame and a maximum distance of c. 7mm from the previous pair. The following 7 pairs follow this alignment and spacing. The final pair is incomplete where the frame is broken, and are at a distance of c. 5mm from the previous pair, suggesting that the frame would have followed the same pattern at this end as at the surviving end. The reverse is flat. The frame is now bent and twisted out of shape. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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