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Description: | Incomplete Medieval copper alloy purse bar from the late 15th to early 16th centuries. It consists of two seperate pieces. The top section is a formed of a horizontal circular sectioned bar with pyramidal knops on each end. This bar has suffered damage and now bends down at each end. From the centre of this top bar projects a vertical rectangular bar which half way along its lengh, steps in in width and becomes circular in section ending in an ovoid knop. The second piece consists of a sub-rectangular boss with a circular hole drilled through the centre, through which the circular lower section of the vertical bar of the top piece passes, held in place by the knop at the end. From each side of the boss would have projected a circular sectioned bar, now lost to old breaks close to the boss. It measures 30.4mm long, 50.5mm wide and 9.0mm thick. It weighs 26.85g.It is a Ward Perkins (1940: 167, fig. 52) Type B8 which is unusual in having an upper horizontal bar for attachment rather than a loop.
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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