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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy early Post Medieval purse bar, c. 1500-1550 AD. Originally, the purse bar would have comprised of two sections; this segment is one half of the horizontal bar. The purse bar has a rectangular central block with a notch on the bottom surface and a circular hole penetrating the centre, from which one of the two original short, circular-sectioned bars project. The remaining half terminates in a flattened rounded end-knop. The central rectangular block bears traces of a punched design. It measures 40.13 mm long, 18.47 mm high at midde, 6.92 mm thick at middle, with a 5.58 mm approximate shaft diameter; the knop measures 14.89 mm long by 12.98 mm wide; the bar weighs 16.07 grams.The purse bar can be classified as a Ward-Perkins (1940, 167, Fig. 52) Type B8. This type is characterised by the absence of pendant loops and the presence of lower notches to facilitate a vertical shank and upper arm. Types B6 and B7 are similar, but with larger central blocks; the missing segments of this purse bar would have aided in positive identification. Such types date from the first half of the sixteenth century.
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