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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy purse bar dating from the late Medieval to ealy Post Medieval periods. It has two main sections; a horizontal bar with central boss and a vertical bar running through the boss with a loop at the top. The rectangular central boss on the horizontal bar is pierced centrally for the vertical bar, and has rouned lower corners giving it a D shape in profile and a rectangular shape in plan. Two circular sectioned bars project, one at each side.One side bar is broken at close to the boss with an old break. The complete side is 19.3mm long, terminating in a spherical knob. The knob, which is 12mm by 11cm, is decorated with deeply indented twisted ridges.The vertical bar is free-moving in the hole through the central boss. The loop at the top is oval in shape and 'D'-sectioned with a flat inner side. At the bottom of the vertical bar is a seperate knop, trapezoid in profile and circular in sectoion, to keep the bar in place. The entire piece measures 50.48mm in length, 50.30 mm in height and 8.26 mm in thickness. It weighs 25.61g.It is a Ward Perkins (1940: 167, fig. 52) Type B3 which he dates form the later 15th to early 16th centuries AD and similar examples can be seen on this database; e.g. SOM-AEB9F2 and SOM-AEB9F2.
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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