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Description: | A copper alloy purse bar which dates from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. The bar is 142.7mm long and is mainly circular in section. In the centre of the bar is a sub-spherical block with a diameter of 16.6mm through which is a vertical circular hole. The loop from which the purse would have hung from the belt would have been fixed through this hole but is now missing. The two arms of the bar are complete. They have a diameter of 8mm. They each end in a short circular sectioned projection with a diameter of 4.3mm. These projections would have slotted into the ends of a curved frame which is missing. There is a thin rectangular flange which is about 30mm long and 2mm thick projecting downwards 3mm from the centre of each arm. There are two circular holes, one at each end, in each flange. The cloth purse would have been attached to these flanges. A piece of thin copper alloy wire survives looped through one of the holes. Attaching the purse with wire instead of thread may have offered some protection against cut-purses; thieves who would cut the purse off the frame. The bar is decorated with inlaid niello. There is lattice work decoration executed in double lines on the arms, and four vertical ovals divided into lozenge shapes on the block. The niello has mineralised to dark grey shiny bands. The metal has a light green and brown patina and the bar is in excellent condition. Similar bars are illustrated in the ??London Museum Catalogue number 7: Medieval Catalogue?? by Ward-Perkins (1940). | Subjects: | bar | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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