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Description: | Cast copper-alloy purse bar with an oval suspension loop, acorn-shaped neck terminal, and a central square-shaped block. The surface is corroded and more recently gashed so that no decoration can be seen. The central block is drilled and fitted with a swivelling oval loop which is lozenge-shaped in cross-section. There is a moulded, stylised, zoomorphic head to either side of the central block, gripping the side arms, which are circular in cross-section, in its mouth. The side arms are stepped or taper after a further 18 mm from the edge of these mouths to their present terminals. These ends are quite worn and are probably broken as they appear too short and each have the beginnings of the attachment flanges which would have housed the sewing holes (see references below). Each side bar is now only 30 mm in total from the edge of the central block and the total width of the purse bar is 73 mm. The diameter of the bar is 7.3 mm; the block is 12.5 mm long by 12.6 mm wide and 15 mm in thickness; the loop is 38 mm long and 20.3 mm wide and 4 mm in thickness.
It dates from the late 15th to the early 16th century.
LMMC type A1 (London Museum and Ward Perkins, 1993, pages 162-165).
Read (2001) illustrates a similar example with a square shield block and zoomorphic mouldings on page 130, Fig.84, No.905, and another, No.906, which is a fragment of a side bar, similarly worn, which are both dated to c.1450-1500.
Bailey (1993) illustrates a similar example on page 6, No.17, which is dated from the late 15th to the early 16th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tyacke, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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