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Description: | Copper-alloy purse bar. The purse bar is 54 mm long but is broken before the terminal. The break is worn so this is not a recent break. The bar is circular in section, measuring 5 mm in diameter and emmanating from a central, rectangular boss. This boss is decorated with an incised X on each of its faces. A suspension loop is attached to the boss on its other side.
The purse bar is quite worn, and little decoration remains, although it is likely that it was once decorated with niello. The artefact is probably type A2 in the London Museum Medieval Catalogue (Ward Perkins 1940, pages 162-165; figure 50). It is late medieval in date, probably from the 15th century. | 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: | 1400
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tom Brindle | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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