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Description: | A Type A1 late medieval purse bar made of copper-alloy with inlaid niello. This purse bar dates to the late 15th century. Only a fragment of one arm of the bar survives. The arm has a circular section and has been decorated with double criss-cross engraving filled with niello. Both ends of the surviving fragment are badly corroded and worn. Beneath the area with criss-cross lines there is part of an integral plate, which would have three holes drilled in it , this is now broken. At one terminal the section of the bar gets narrower, in order to allow the purse frame in sit inside the aperture, unfortunately due to a break and heavy wear this part of the terminal is badly damaged. Instead a stump (indicating the beginnings of the narrower section of the bar) remains. The metal is a mid greyish-green colour. The metal is slightly worn and pitted.
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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