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Description: | A bent cast copper-alloy purse bar fragment of late medieval or early post-medieval date. One of the bars exists, projecting from the once central block: the loop and associated rove along with the other bar are both missing. In cross-section the block is the shape of a rectangle with rounded corners, with a slightly off-centred circular perforation, c. 6.9mm in diameter, through which the shank of the loop would have travelled. It is a six-sided figure in shape, with bevelled edges towards its base. It is 16.5mm long, 12.95mm wide and 8.65mm thick. It is decorated bifacially on both of the large fields through grooving and nielloing, although the latter has been lost. The precise patterning of the intersecting diagonals found on both faces is difficult to tease out. The extant bar emerges from the block in an animal's head junction (L.: 13.5mm) reminiscent of contemporary knife end-stops and spout terminals. The bar continues, circular in cross-section, for c. 50.3mm at a diameter of c. 6.5mm. It then narrows to a diameter of 3.3mm, continuing for a further 9.5mm. Any terminal knob or rove to the bar is now missing. On the underside of the bar is an integral pendant frame (L.: 22.1mm) featuring two circular perforations which have both worn through. The bar is decorated with a worn grooved - and subsequently nielloed - lattice pattern. This, along with the animal's head terminal, allows for classification of this purse as a Ward-Perkins (1940, 163-165) Type A1. The metal has a mid-red-orange hue overlain by areas of mid-green corrosion product.
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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