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Description: | A worn cast copper-alloy fragment: part of the frame of a late medieval or early post-medieval purse. The object is V-shaped in section until it expands into a solid element through forty-five degrees. This solid element takes the shape of a rectangle with rounded corners in cross-section (L.: c. 18mm; W.: 7.3mm; Th.: 2.9mm). At an angle of about 120 degrees to the solid element is a broken attachment loop (L: 9.6mm; W.: 8.2mm; Th.: 2.1mm). This loop would have hung around the end of the purse bar. Along the inner side of the V-shaped element is a series of six small circular perforations, one of which has broken through the edge. It would have been through these holes that the frame was sewn to the fabric purse (Geake 2001, 43). On the solid outer side there are traces of incised diagonal lines decorating the frame: these might originally have been nielloed. The section of the artefact together with the absence of any inscription suggests that this was part of the frame from a Ward-Perkins (1940, 164) Type A1 purse.
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