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Description: | Terminal and part of shaft from a copper-alloy purse bar of early post-medieval date. The terminal is sub-spherical with a ridge and two grooves around the circumference and a groove across the outside. The shaft is circular in section and is thick and sturdy; the end is an old break. The surviving length is 47.9mm long and the terminal has a diameter of 12.7mm.This is a bar of Ward-Perkins's Type B3. His illustration of the type has twisted spiral groove decoration, and there are many other examples known with the same long slender bar and spherical terminals but with slightly different decoration. The circumferential groove(s) and groove across the outside is also found on the complete example of NMGW-A44044. From the evidence of dated memorial brasses studied by Ward-Perkins, this type belongs to the first half of the 16th century (Ward-Perkins 1940, 167-8).
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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