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Description: | Incomplete Medieval to post-Medieval cast copper alloy purse bar. The surviving fragment comprises of less than half the complete bar. The central suspension block and one complete arm are missing, the surviving arm has lost the end knop which formed its finial. The survivng arm is oval in cross-section with an integral attachment plate on the underside which has one circular hole for attaching the purse bag. At the complete narrowed end of the arm there is an integrally cast narrowed circular-sectioned prong which would have taken the finial separate drum-shaped terminal, the opposite end of the arm is broken. Above the the integral attachment plate the arm is decorated with two pairs of diagonal grooves forming a chevron, this decoration was probably originally inlaid with niello.The purse bar is of Ward Perkins Type A1 or A2 (1940:164-165), dated c.1475-1550 AD (p.160).
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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