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PURSE
Unique ID: SUR-180A64
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A Post Medieval copper alloy purse bar with one arm missing, belonging to Ward Perkins Class A1. The rounded central block is decorated with a single strand cross on one side and a double cross on the other. Both decorations are inlaid with niello. There is a debased animal head on each side of the central block. The bar itself is decorated with zig-zag lines inlaid with niello. An attachment tab with two holes is on the underside of the surviving bar.
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: Exactly AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 93.27 mm
Width: 13.69 mm
Weight: 38.42 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: B15-925
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with niello
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Crowmarsh (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU6187
Four figure Latitude: 51.57857091
Four figure longitude: -1.12109722
1:25K map: SU6187
1:10K map: SU68NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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