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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy purse frame/bar suspension loop and attachment, dating to the 15th/ 16th century AD (length: 56.2mm; width: 41.6mm; thickness/ diameter of central circular boss: 15.1mm; weight: 32.87g). A large circular boss/ swivel with one complete side bar, the other broken. To either side of this central swivel, there is a circular protruding collar, where the complete side bar continues to a smaller globular terminal, with a copper alloy rivet visible on the outside edge. Above at below on the central swivel, there is a hole through which another bar runs with a globular ring to either side. There are two small collars just below the suspension loop which is sub-oval in shape with flat and straight sides. The artefact is slightly worn but in a fair condition with a dark green patina.An identical example is illustrated in J. B. Ward Perkins' 'London Museum Medieval Catalogue', 1940, pages 167-8, Plate XXXVII and fig 52, where this type of purse bar/ frame is classified as a Type B2 which has a spherical central boss and terminals. Similar examples are also illustrated in Brian Read's 'Metal Artefacts of Antiquity: A Catalogue of Small Finds from Specific Areas in the United Kingdom: Volume One', 2001, pages 124-133.
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