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Description: | One arm of a late medieval or early post-medieval copper-alloy purse bar of LMMC type A1. The purse bar is decorated with double intercrossing diagonal lines inlaid with niello. At one end is a stylised animal head with open jaws gripping the bar; the back of the head is broken away from the central block. At the other end the bar is narrowed before expanding again to a slightly larger terminal; the frame for the purse would have hung from the narrowed area. The bar is sub-circular in cross-section and is 76 mm long and 9 mm wide. It is similar to an example illustrated in the London Museum Medieval Catalouge (Ward-Perkins 1940), figure 50, page 163, although it lacks the pierced plates to which the fabric of the purse would have been attached. It dates to the late 15th or early 16th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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