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Description: | NGR. Copper-alloy purse bar. Medieval. Mass: 53.1g; length: 12.33mm (including the attachment plates); width: 114.0; depth: 15.7mm (across the central block). There are two diametrically opposed side-bars which are circular in section and gripped by animals' heads at their junction with the central sub-spherical block. The sub-spherical block has a central circular perforation running from top to bottom, but the loop is missing. On the underside of the bar there are two attachment plates, one on either arm, near to the terminals. One attachment plate is complete and has two circular perforations; the other is incomplete and has three perforations. There are the broken stubs of terminal knops on both ends of the bar. There is a small patch of gilding on one side of the bar, near to the central block. The bar is decorated with inlaid niello in cross-cross lines. This is a Type A1 purse bar (Ward-Perkins, 1940, p. 158-171). Ward-Perkins dates these purse bars to the late 15th century.
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