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PURSE
Unique ID: WILT-22DED4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper-alloy Medieval Type A2 copper alloy purse bar dating to c AD 1450-c1500. The purse bar is incomplete as the end of each side-bar and pendent frame are lost. The purse bar comprises a rectangular section bar with an oval section collar each side of a central shield-shaped boss. On the underside of each side-bar is an attachment flange with a worn-through sewing hole. The central boss is drilled and fitted with a swivelling circular-section circular pendent loop. One side of the boss has niello residue of a tau cross asnd the other, A. The side-bars on one side have the niello (some lost) reversed Lombardic partial uncertain inscription NON NIP, and [.] IN DEON, on the other. The purse bar is 86.31mm long, 52.94mm in width and 8.73mm in depth. The width of the pendent loop at the top is 27.19mm and 28.95mm from the bar to the top of the ring.
The N is reverse barred.
The artefact has been recorded in Read (2001) no. 913.
Class:
bar and loop
Sub class: Williams Class A2
Inscription:
NON T NIP, and [.] IN A DEON
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 86.31 mm
Width: 52.94 mm
Thickness: 8.73 mm
Weight: 41.74 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 4221
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with niello
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Kingston Deverill
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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