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Description: | A copper alloy purse bar dating from c. AD 1475 to 1550. It comprises of two sections; a vertical bar which passes through a horizontal bar. The horizontal bar has a rectangular block in the centre with rounded lower corners. The block is decorated with indented diagonal lines filled with niello, on one face these cross to form a series of lozenges. On the other face most details are obscured by corrosion but in one corner there appear to be two sets of paired lines crossing each other.Two integrally cast arms projected from the central block, one to each side. One is now missing to a patinated break at the block. The remaining arm is oval in section, wider than it is thick, 9.7mm by 6.6mm. Adjacent to the block the arm is shaped into a crude, debased animal head with a rectangular section which slightly away form the block then steps in abruptly to form the brow ridge. From this the baws again widen away from the block befor stepping in where they bite the remainder of the bar. The remainder of the bar is also oval in section, 8.0mm by 5.2mm mm and ends in a bend and patinated break.The vertical bar runs through a hole through the central block of the horizontal bar. At the top is an oval loop, now broken, distorted and partially missing. Below this is a conical section of bar widening towards the block where it steps in. At the base of the block is the projecting end of the circular sectioned bar, held in place by a separate bead. the bead widenes away from the block and the end of the vertical bar projects slightly on the lower side.The horizontal bar is now 51.6mm long, the vertical bar is 41.6mm and the block is 11.2mm thick, the thickest point. The entire thing weighs 34.12 grams..It is a Ward Perkins (1940: 163, fig. 50) Type A1 which he dates form the later 15th to early 16th centuries AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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