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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy late Medieval to early Post Medieval purse bar, c. AD 1450-1550. Williams Class A1. Approximately half of the original object survives in total. The remains of the purse bar consist of the central block, most of the right purse bar arm and a small portion of the oval swivel and attached vertical pin. The left arm has been broken at the junction with the swivel block, while around 70% of the right arm survives. The broken oval swivel loop has been heavily twisted outwards, terminating in an integral conical collar before the shank of the swivel continues through the sub-rectangular swivel block. The central block seems to have been decorated with an uncertain design, possibly the monogram IHS. Below the central block, the swivel shank terminates in a sub bi-conical rove. The arms are circular in section, and originally a pair of knopped or plain circular terminals would have been evident, though these do not survive. The metal has preserved relatively well, with an even green patina covering the whole of the object.Looking at the object from the decorated size of the swivel block, the left arm survives to a length of only 2.7mm, while the right arm is 28.32mm long and some 3.1 mm wide at its mid point. In total, the piece is 23.54 cm long from the top of the swivel remnants to the base of the rove, and is 49.74mm wide from the broken end of each arm. The swivel block is 11.1mm wide and 4.8mm thick. The piece weighs 14.4 grams.Cf. Williams, 'Copper Alloy Purse Bars and Frames. A new classification using finds from England and Wales recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme,' draft 24.6.12, p4.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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