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PURSE
Unique ID: SF6547
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
Small copper-alloy purse bar of Ward-Perkins's Type B4 (Ward-Perkins 1940, 167-9). It has a small rectangular loop, with a shank below which has a concave-sided, circular-section waist and then a constriction to allow it to pass through the bar, with an integral rove at the bottom. The bar is very flimsy - just 3.5 x 2 mm in maximum cross-section, and 45 mm long with a narrowing at either end to receive the frame. No terminals to the bar (which would have held the frame in place) survive. Ward-Perkins dates these to c. 1500-1550.
Class:
bar
Sub class: Williams class F
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1500
Date to: AD 1550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45 mm
Width: 20 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 6.66 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st June 2001
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