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Description: | A copper alloy purse bar, late fifteenth century. The side-bars are circular in section and are gripped by animals?? heads at their junction with the central boss which is cube-shaped. The boss is decorated on one side with a tau-cross and on the other with a reversed S. The bar has three suspension holes on each side for the purse, and knobbed terminals and niello ornament in a criss-cross pattern. One terminal and the suspension loop are now missing. It is an example of Type A1 in the London Museum typology (Ward Perkins, J. B. 1940. Medieval Catalogue, pages 164-5). | Subjects: | Bar | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Pooley, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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