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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy post-medieval purse of late 15th-early 16th-century date (Geake 2001, 42). The object consists of two elements: the loop, and the central block with its two extending bars. Through the block there is a circular perforation c. 4.5mm in diameter through which the shank of the loop travels. The drop-shaped loop is held in place by a terminal rove, circular in cross-section but trapezoidal in plan, tapering towards the block. The loop is 21.5mm in length, 18.75mm in maximum width and 2.5mm thick. Towards the shank it terminates in a solid section which expands in dimensions. Since its deposition the loop has been twisted out of its original shape transversely. The central block is rectangular in cross-section, with the circular perforation to take the shank - this is off centre. In shape it is a crude six-sided figure, with bevelled edges towards the rove. It is 12.75mm long, 9.7mm wide and 7.6mm thick. On one of the large faces is a short horizontal indentation, although this is not decorative; it is otherwise plain. The bars are both broken and do not seem to have received any special treatment at their junction with the block. One, the longer at 10.3mm, appears sub-oval in cross-section and is 5.2mm wide and 4.25mm thick. It has been bent as a result of old damage. The other bar is only now 4.7mm long, 5.55mm wide and 3.1mm thick. This, bizarrely, seem to bear the shape of a rectangle with rounded corners in cross-section. Overall, this appears to be a relatively crude example of the type and cannot be easily classified. | 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
1550 | 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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