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Description: | The bar from a now incomplete cast copper-alloy post-medieval purse. The artefact features a sub-rectangular central block with its two extending bars. Through the central block there is a circular perforation c. 5mm in diameter through which the shank of the loop would have travelled. The block is c. 14mm long, c. 13mm wide and c. 9mm thick. It has a slightly recessed base and linear decoration on both faces. On the front this appears as a 'W' form; on the back it is rendered slightly differently as two verticals with diagonals joining their tops and bottoms and intersecting in the centre of the face. The bars emerge from the centre of the block and extend for c. 25.5mm on either side. The terminals are of sub-spherical shape and measure c. 10mm across. The smallness of this purse suggests classification as a Ward-Perkins (1940, 167, 169) Type B, sub-types B6-B8: these are characterised by their absence of pendent loops but are not easily distinguished. Such types date from the first half of the sixteenth 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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