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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy late medieval or early post-medieval purse bar. This purse bar is formed from a circular sectioned shaft. At the mid point the bar expands into a stepped and flattened horizontal oval, with a circular perforation, to hold the suspension loop. This bar has broken half way through at the point of perforation and is now in two halves. One portion of bar expands into a wasted neck and is finished with a globular terminal, trapezoidal in profile. Presumably the opposite end would also have been finished in this way, but it has truncated at the point where the wasted neck would have expanded from the main body of the bar. Both portions of bar are abraded. Tiny patches of original surface survives with an even, dark green patina, otherwise the exposed surfaces are orangey brown and light green. The break edges at the point of perforation, though not fresh, are not over worn, suggesting that this damage occurred in the recent past. The break at the terminal end of one bar is worn, suggesting that this damage occurred in antiquity. The combined length of the bar is 71.92mm, of which 7.84mm is the surviving terminal. The wasted neck is 4.68mm of the entire length. The bar is 5.6mm thick. The surviving terminal is 7.4mm long. The object weighs 11.87g. The Medieval Catalogue of the London Museum, 1967, illustrates a number of purse bars from the 15th and 16th centuries (page 163).
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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