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Description: | A cast copper alloy purse bar of early post-medieval date. The purse bar measures 69.2mm by 47.8mm by 7.7mm and weighs 27.6g. It has been cast in two sections: (a) a circular-sectioned horizontal bar with a sub-spherical knop at each end and a rectangular section in the centre, and (b) a vertical bar with an oval suspension loop at the upper end and a globular knop at the lower end. The bar in between the two ends of the latter section is positioned within a perforation through the rectangular part of the first section and can pivot through 360 degrees. The knops at each end of the horizontal bar are decorated with two parallel vertical circumferential grooved linears and a single more deeply grooved line on each external face. There is a shallow depression in the centre of one side of the central rectangular section but it is otherwise undecorated. There is a broadly similar example in the London Museum Medieval Catalogue, (no. 3, plate XXXVII, opposite p. 171).
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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