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PURSE
Unique ID: GLO-69F655
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy purse bar that consists of two oval cross section arms that flank a rectangular central block hub. The block hub has a hole that passed through the middle that mounts the spindle for the suspension loop. The loop has a small cylindrical neck and a large circular loop, on the base of the loop and passing through the hub is a narrowed bar that has a cylindrical collar. The face of the hub is decorated with three recessed diagonal lines running up from left to right, and recessed cross hatched lines on the other side.
The arms projects from the block hub, each arm has a moulded base in the shape of an animal head with a gaping mouth. From the mouth of the beast protrudes the circular cross section arm of the purse, the final half of which is decorated with a recessed cross-hatch pattern. On the underside is a pierced tab. The terminal of the arm has a narrowed bar that has a cylindrical collar. All of the recessed lines inlayed with niello.
Date 1400-1600
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 124 mm
Width: 52 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight: 67.76 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st February 2017 - Thursday 1st June 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with niello
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
District: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Nailsea
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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