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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy purse bar with an oval suspension loop and a central block in the shape of a square shield. One side arm remains with a spherical terminal decorated with four moulded twisted ribs that encircle the terminal at an oblique angle and taper to a point where they meet at the apex of the terminal. The central block is drilled and fitted with a swivelling oval loop which is plano-convex in cross-section. The side arm is cast with the block and is circular in section, until it expands to the globular wrythen terminal. There are vertical scratches on both surfaces of the block, but there does not appear to be any marks or incised decoration.Ward Perkins in the 1940 London Museum Medieval Catalogue illustrates a similar example on page 167, Fig.52 and on Plate 37, No.4, which is classified as Type B3 and is dated from the early 16th century.Read (2001) illustrates a similar purse bar with a square shield block and globular wrythen terminals on page 133, Fig.87, No.923, which is dated from the late 15th century to the early 16th century.Bailey (1993) illustrates a similar terminal and bar on pages 5-6, Nos.11 & 19, which are dated from the late 15th to the early 16th century.
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