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Description: | A fragment of a cast copper alloy purse bar of Late Medieval date (AD 1450 - AD 1500). Length: 64.2mm; width: 7.7mm and 11.4mm thick. Weight: 21.09g.The fragment is part of one arm of a purse bar. At the terminal end it is reduced in diameter to about 5.0mm and has an adjacent circumferential groove that accommodated part of the missing frame. The opposite end is in the form of an old break. On the underside is an attachment plate, 34.0mm in length and 1.9 mm in width. Both faces of the attachment plate have file marks. The plate has two circular perforations to enable attachment. The arm, excluding the plate, is decorated with lattice-pattern grooves which were originally filled with niello. Some of the niello survives but is in poor condition.The object has a patchy mid-green patina. Where the patina has not survived, the surface colour of the metal is dull reddish.This purse bar can be classified as a Type A1 and dated to the late fifteenth century (Ward Perkins 1940, 162-65, pl. XXXIII).
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