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Description: | A corroded and slightly bent cast copper-alloy purse bar fragment of late medieval or early post-medieval date. The bar has broken off at its junction with the central block. It emerges in an animal's head junction (L.: 16.5mm) reminiscent of contemporary knife end-stops and spout terminals, and characteristic of the type. The bar continues, circular in cross-section, for c. 50.4mm at a diameter of c. 7.8mm. Beyond it narrows to a diameter of 4.55mm, and has a terminal knob or rove (max. dia.: 8.9mm) placed over it. On the underside of the bar is an integral pendant frame (L.: c. 29.1mm), sub-trapezoidal in form and featuring two circular perforations; it is now slightly bent. The bar is decorated with a grooved, and nieloed, lattice pattern in a zone above the pendent frame delineated by transverse lines. This, along with the animal's head terminal, allows for classification of this purse as a Ward-Perkins (1940, 163-165) Type A1. The metal has a dark red/brown hue largely overlain by areas of mid-dark green corrosion patina.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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