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PURSE

Unique ID: DOR-B9C484

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Part of a cast copper alloy purse bar with niello decoration. On side bar only remains. It is broken off just before the point where it would attach to the central "boss" of the purse bar, with part of zoomorphic decoration remaining (the mouth of a stylised head). The side bar is circular in cross section and is decorated in the round with double stranded cross hatched lines of niello inlay.On the underside at the outer end of the bar is a flange with rounded corners and two circular attachment holes.At the outer end of the bar is a constriction where the arms of the purse frame would have been attached. Beyond this the circular sectioned terminal expands and flares slightly. There is an off centre slight knop at the very end of the bar. This is similar to Ward Perkins type A1 (Ward-Perkins, 1940, Medieval Catalogue, p134, plate XXXIII). A more complete example can be seen in record WILT-297C63.
Date: Late Medieval - c. 1450 - 1500
Dimensions: 67.77 x 12.17 mm x 9.01 mm
Weight: 24.13 mm

Class: bar
Sub class: Williams Class A1

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1500

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 67.77 mm
Width: 12.17 mm
Thickness: 9.01 mm
Weight: 24.13 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2011 - Saturday 15th January 2011

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Geometric
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with niello

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Shillingstone (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: ST8410
Four figure Latitude: 50.889261
Four figure longitude: -2.228842
1:25K map: ST8410
1:10K map: ST81SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

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Recording Institution: DOR
Created: 12 years ago
Updated: 5 years ago

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