Rights Holder: Eleanore Cox
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Unique ID: NARC-526379
Object type certainty: Certain
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A fragment of a copper alloy Purse Bar of Medieval to post-Medieval date (AD 1450- 1550).
Williams 2018 Class A1.
This object comprises of one incomplete arm only. The arm, circular in cross-section, with a cylindrical knop which is separated but a circumferential groove. The object is decorated double-stranded niello-inlaid cross-hatched decoration survives. A complete sub-rectangular attachment plate projecting from the arm. The attachment arm has one visible perforation, any further perforation are obscured by corrosion bi-product.
The metal is a dark green in colour with a pitted and corroded patina.
Length: 65.61mm; Width: 12.19mm; Thickness: 8.83mm. Weight: 19.1g.
Purse bars with niello inlaid decoration and zoomorphic mouldings at the bases of arms are classified by Ward-Perkins (1940: 164, fig. 50) as Type A1.
Ward Perkins, J.B., 1940 The London Museum Medieval Catalogue London: HMSO.
Williams, D., 2018 Copper-alloy Purse Components: A new classification using finds from England and Wales recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme London: Finds Research Group
Class: Class A1
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1450
Date to: Circa AD 1550
Quantity: 1
Length: 65.61 mm
Width: 12.19 mm
Thickness: 8.83 mm
Weight: 19.1 g
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Linear
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with niello
4 Figure: TF2518
Four figure Latitude: 52.74517751
Four figure longitude: -0.1496884
1:25K map: TF2518
1:10K map: TF21NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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