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Description: | A cast copper alloy purse bar of late medieval or early post-medieval date. The purse bar measures 70.2mm by 52.97mm by 9.46mm and weighs 24.51g. It has been cast in two sections: (a) a sub circular-sectioned horizontal bar with a sub-spherical knop at each end and a rectangular block in the centre, and (b) a vertical bar with an oval suspension loop at the upper end and a globular knop at the lower end. The bar in between the two ends of the latter section is positioned within a perforation through the rectangular part of the first section and could pivot through 360 degrees (now corroded and immovable). The knops at each end of the horizontal bar are decorated with two parallel vertical circumferential grooved lines and a single more deeply grooved line on each external face and they are very worn. The centre block is undecorated. There is a broadly similar example in the London Museum Medieval Catalogue, (no. 3, plate XXXVII, opposite p. 171) which is a Ward Perkins type B3 probably dating from 1500 - 1550. Similar examples on the database are SOM-AEB9F2, NLM-06F273, NCL-94BCC8 and IOW-D1A7C1.
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