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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy late 15th or early 16th century purse bar, Museum of London type A2. This object represents one half or arm of the original purse bar. It is cylindrical in section, solid with a globular terminal. Just before the terminal is a deep groove where the purse frame was attached. The bar is broken at the point where it would have joined the central square block, where the suspension loop was fitted. At this point is an integrally moulded zoomorphic head that is designed so that the bar seems to extend from its open mouth. There is a subrectangular crest extending from the middle of the bar that is perforated with two circular holes. The bar is decorated with a grooved double strand criss cross design with the black niello surviving well. The original surface of the object has a brown patina with flashes of green corrosion product. Break edges are worn smooth suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The bar is 77.24mm long, of which 9.84mm is the terminal and 12mm is the zoomorphic moulding. It has a diameter of 7.18mm and weighs 21.83g. The classification can be seen in the Museum of London Medieval Catalogue, figure 50, A2. | 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: | 1475
1525 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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