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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy purse bar, missing one side arm and its suspension loop above the central square-shaped block. The central block is drilled and would have fitted the swivelling neck of the loop. The block has the letter 'A' incised and then filled in niello on its front face, and the letter 'W' on its back face, presumably the initials of the owner. The side arm is also decorated with niello lattice work or cross hatching around the circumference of the arm. There is a moulded, stylised, zoomorphic head to either side of the central block, gripping the side arms, which are circular in cross-section, in its mouth. The side arm that remains is stepped from the edge of the mouth and then evenly cylindrical to its expanded, beaded terminal. The terminal is acorn-shaped in profile and circular in section, with a drilled hole to allow the bar to protrude from the end of the bead. Between the edge of the arm and the bead is a slot where the pendent loop would have fitted, to hold the pendent frame, now missing. The attachment flange, which houses the two sewing holes to attach it to the purse fabric, still hangs from the underside of the side arm, along its middle section. The side arm is 79 mm in length from the edge of the central block to the terminal boss and the total length of the purse bar is 105 mm. The diameter of the arm is 13 mm; the bead is 9.3 mm long and 10 m min diameter; and the block is 15 mm long by 15 mm wide and 10 mm in thickness. It dates from the late 15th to the early 16th century.LMMC type A1 (London Museum and Ward Perkins, 1993, pages 162-165).Read (2001) illustrates a similar example with a square shield block and zoomorphic mouldings on page 130, Fig.84, No.905, and another, No.906, which is a fragment of a side bar, similarly worn, which are both dated to c.1450-1500.Bailey (1993) illustrates a similar example on page 6, No.17, which is dated from the late 15th to the early 16th century.
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