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Description: | Purse bar arm
Medieval to Post Medieval 1450-1600
Length 57mm, width 11mm, thickness 8mm
Long straight solid bar (diameter 8mm). Crest on one side of the bar towards the terminal (30mm long, 1mm wide 3mm tall) there are to wholes, one at either side (2mm diameter). On either side of the crest there are two bands of niello that run around the circumference of the bar, there are two sets of double cross hatching in between these bands. The terminal of the bar is steeped. The other end is broken.
Mid green colour the whole of the original surface has worn away and there are occasional segments of the niello missing exposing a groove underneath.
Similar examples are found at the London Museum (Ward Parkins, 1967, 158-165) | 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: | 1450
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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