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Description: | Part of a cast copper alloy purse bar dating from the late Medieval or early Post Medieval period. This purse bar consists of one almost complete arm and the central block. The loop and most of the shank are missing and the other arm is mostly missing due to an old break and only a stub has survived. The rectangular central block has a flat top. It has a central vertical circular hole that accommodated the shank. Some of this survives inside the block. It is copper alloy and circular in section. One face of the central block is decorated with two lozenges, with double line borders executed in niello. The other face is decorated with two pairs of vertical lines, with a diagonal line joining them, like a backwards N, also in niello. The arms of the bar are circular in section and have moulded animal heads at the side of the central block. The surviving arm is decorated with lattice work in niello. The terminal is missing due to a break. Consequently, the constriction for the frame is lost. The arm is bent out of alignment. Beneath the arm there is an attachment plate with two circular holes through it. The bag would have been attached using these. The purse bar can be classified as a Type A1 (Ward Perkins 1940, 165, fig. 50).
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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