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Description: | Incomplete large Medieval purse bar, bent and broken, now comprising two joining pieces). Shield-shaped central boss with vertical perforation containing iron corrosion and both faces with niello inlaid in engraved decoration, one face with an engraved monogram IHS (for Jesus Hominum Salvator, Jesus Saviour of Mankind) and the other with three cross crosslets (1,2) there are traces of a possible further charge in base now obscured by corrosion. The shield is flanked by two outward-facing animal-heads from which spring a circular-sectioned bar with constriction at both ends that passes through a separate tubular terminal with rounded end (one broken and missing). The bar is decorated with oblique triple engraved lines with remains of inlaid niello forming lozengiform cross-hatching and both sides have a lower flange for suspension with five perforations. 232 x 18mm. Cf. LMMC (1967) Type A1, plate 33, 164-5. Late 15th 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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