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Description: | Terminal and part of shaft from a copper-alloy purse bar of early post-medieval date. The terminal is roughly spherical and the shaft is circular in cross-section, flaring slightly to the old break which occurs apparently just below its widest point. The bar is bent about 10mm below the head. Rough brown and light green patina. Diameter of terminal c.11.1mm, maximum diameter of shaft 4.48mm, surviving length (bent) c.36mm, weight 6.72g.
This is an example of Ward-Perkins's Type B3. His illustration of the type shows twisted spiral groove decoration on the terminal, and there are many other examples known with the same long slender bar and spherical terminals but with slightly different decoration. A complete example can be found on the PAS database at 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). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1500
1550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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