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Description: | Part of a cast copper alloy purse bar with niello decoration. On side bar only remains. It is broken off just before the point where it would attach to the central "boss" of the purse bar, with part of zoomorphic decoration remaining (the mouth of a stylised head). The side bar is circular in cross section and is decorated in the round with double stranded cross hatched lines of niello inlay.On the underside at the outer end of the bar is a flange with rounded corners and two circular attachment holes.At the outer end of the bar is a constriction where the arms of the purse frame would have been attached. Beyond this the circular sectioned terminal expands and flares slightly. There is an off centre slight knop at the very end of the bar. This is similar to Ward Perkins type A1 (Ward-Perkins, 1940, Medieval Catalogue, p134, plate XXXIII). A more complete example can be seen in record WILT-297C63.Date: Late Medieval - c. 1450 - 1500Dimensions: 67.77 x 12.17 mm x 9.01 mmWeight: 24.13 mm
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