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Description: | Late Medieval or early Post-Medieval purse frame fragment. Cast in copper alloy, the frame is decorated with a double incised zigzag line design, with a small amount of the niello inlay remaining. In the V shaped spaces between the larger zigzag decoration are smaller slightly irregular zigzag motifs, each comprised of four V's. The frame is 'V' shaped in cross section, measuring 7.88mm wide and 5.13mm thick, the surviving section measures 111.41mm in length. There are three evenly spaced circular rivet holes on inner edge. The frame has a mid to dark green patina. There are worn breaks at both ends of the fragment, with one of these breaks forming across a rivet hole. The decoration is also worn at this end of the fragment for aproximately 20mm along the length of the frame. | 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: | 1460
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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