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Description: | Fragment of late Medieval - Post Medieval cast copper alloy purse bar arm. The arm is sub-rectangular in section with wide flat faces, narrow top and bottom and slightly rounded corners and tapers slightly towards the terminal end. At the terminal is a thicker circular sectioned collar, a narrow neck and then a conical knop with a convex end which has been added seperately. The opposite end of the bar is an old break. Two rounded tabs project from the base of the bar each with a circular hole where the fabric part of the purse would have been attached to the bar. The bar is inscribed on both main faces with recessed lettering that in places contains remains of black niello. On one side, reading from the terminal, the inscription is "AVE MARI[A...]" and on the other side, starting at the broken end, it is "[...]TECVM* ". The complete inscriptions were probably Ave Maria Gracia Plena (Hail Mary full of Grace) and Dominvs Tecvm (The Lord be with you). The purse bar is of Ward Perkins Type A2 (1940:165), which he dates to c.1475-1550 AD (p.160); he notes the inscriptions seen on this example are common for this type.It it 60.8mm long, 19.9mm wide including the tabs, 14.1mm thick including the end knop and weighs 20.60 grams.
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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