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Description: | A Medieval-early Post Medieval copper alloy purse bar (1450-1550). The central square is black with rounded lower corners, decorated with niello. One face has radiating lines, possibly depicting a shell and the other face has a cross-hatched pattern. The loop is oval and cast in one with the shank, which passes through the central block and ends in an integral rove. The bar has two arms and there are zoomorphic heads at the junction between the arms and the central block. Both the arms are broken and the terminals are missing. The arms are both broken at the same point and the breaks are very clean. Possibly this was a deliberate modification to reuse the purse bar possibly as part of a sword/scabbard fitting. The copper alloy has a dark green patina.
Dimensions: length 63.47mm; width 64.32mm: thickness 8.82mm; weight 55.71g | 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 | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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