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PURSE

Unique ID: SF-342237

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation

An incomplete and worn cast copper-alloy purse bar of Post-Medieval date. One terminal end of the bar survives, the remainder of the object is missing due to old breaks, now worn.

It is rectangular and V-shaped in section, with a slightly rounded front face. The terminal has been bent outwards to an angle of 90 degrees from the plane of the bar. The back face of the bar has a single circular sewing hole.

This purse measure 38.64mm in length, 6.33mm in width, 5.13mm in thickness, 6.48g in weight.

This is a purse bar frame of LMMC Type A with a similar (but decorated) example recorded from Norwich (Margeson, 1993, p. 42, no. 290) and recorded on the PAS database (SF-55BF47), (SF-95BCF4).

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 38.64 mm
Width: 6.33 mm
Thickness: 5.13 mm
Weight: 6.48 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st February 2014

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: Westley

Spatial coordinates


Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

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Audit data

Recording Institution: SF
Created: 9 years ago
Updated: 9 years ago

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