PURSE
Unique ID: SUSS-01A7F6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation 
End fragment from the side bar of a late Medieval - early Post Medieval purse bar frame (1450-1550 AD). The bar is hexagonal with an old break at one end. The other end terminates in a large oval knop with a collar between it and the bar. It appears to be made of a high tin alloy with lead. It is 32.3mm long, the knop is 10.5mm in diameter and the bar 5.9mm; it weighs 5.78 grams.
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
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Date from: AD 1450
Date to: AD 1550
Dimensions and weight
Length: 32.3 mm
Weight: 5.78 g
Diameter: 10.5 mm
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st February 2008
Personal details
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Recorded by: Ms Laura
Burnett
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Tin or tin alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Fragment [scope notes | view all attributed records]
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Spatial metadata
Region: South East And London
County: West Sussex
District: Arun
To be known as: Near Goring by Sea
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Discovery metadata
Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land[scope notes]
References cited
No references cited so far.
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- David Williams wrote @ 21:06:21 on the 14th February 2011.
I don't know what this is but suspect it's post medieval. It is not purse-related, being of lead alloy. Can it be re-classified as Unidentified please
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Created:
Wednesday 30th July 2008
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
