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Description: | A damaged cast copper-alloy fragment from the pendent frame of a late medieval or early post-medieval purse. The object is V-shaped in cross section, with one side thickened compared to the other. There is one clear sewing hole on the lower side of this fragment, now broken through. It would have been through such holes that the frame was sewn to the fabric purse (Geake 2001, 43). On the outer side are incised diagonal double grooves decorating the frame in a series of 'X's: these may once have been inlaid with niello. The cross-section of the artefact together with the absence of any inscription suggests that this was part of the frame from a Ward-Perkins (1940, 164) Type A1 purse. For similar examples see Read (2001, 130; refs. 907-909). This example now has a variable dark-green patina. The fragment has been twisted as a result of old damage.
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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