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Description: | A Type A1 late medieval purse bar made of copper-alloy with inlaid niello. This purse bar dates to the late 15th century. Only a fragment of one arm of the bar survives. The arm has a circular section and has been decorated with double criss-cross engraving filled with niello. Both ends of the surviving fragment are badly corroded and worn. Beneath the area with criss-cross lines there is an integral plate, drilled with three holes. At one terminal the section of the bar gets narrower, in order to allow the purse frame in sit inside the aperture, unfortunately due to a break and heavy wear this part of the terminal is badly damaged. Instead a stump (indicating the beginnings of the narrower section of the bar) remains. The metal is a mid greyish-green colour. The metal is slightly worn and pitted. A similar purse bar can be seen in the London Museum - Medieval Catalogue, plate XXXIII (see full reference below).
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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