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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy post-medieval purse. The object consists of two elements: the central loop together with the central block with its two extending bars. Through the central block there is a circular perforation 6mm in diameter through which the shank of the loop travels. The loop is held in place by a terminal rove, hemispherical in section and itself terminating in a pellet. The loop is 40mm in length, 18.2mm in maximum width and 3.3mm thick. Towards the shank it terminates in a solid section decorated by a pair of incised transverse lines. Since its deposition the loop has been twisted out of its original shape. The bars have also lost their terminals due to old damage. The bars are sub-circular in section and only extend 18.5mm and 17.5mm from the central block respectively. Near the central block the bars have two pairs of raised lines around their circumference. The central block is 16.9mm in length, with a width of 9.0mm and a thickness of 9.9mm. Particularly clear on one of the faces is an incised shield-shaped motif. This design is characteristic of a Ward-Perkins (1940, 167) Type B1 purse, and thus suggests an early sixteenth-century date. | 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
1560 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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