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PURSE
Unique ID: BUC-84FF42
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Medieval purse bar; the purse bar has a central sub rectangular boss, protruding from either side of the boss is an integral, circular sectioned arm which terminates with a bulbous knop. One of these is broken off. Directly above the boss is the base of the suspension loop. The arm terminates with a bulbous knop which protrudes at the base of the boss. The knops are undecorated. [Please note the photo is upside down!]
Other similar examples are illustrated in the London Museum Catalogue (Ward-Perkins,1940), Figure 52 and type B6 is particularly similar to the recorded example, dating to the late 15th to early 16th centuries.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1475
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 42.82 mm
Width: 23.8 mm
Thickness: 12.68 mm
Weight: 22.1 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st October 2017
Rally details.
This object was found at Weekend Wanderers - Americans nr Thornton etc 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 19
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Bedford (Unitary Authority)
District: Bedford (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Bromham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL0051
Four figure Latitude: 52.14824306
Four figure longitude: -0.53993502
1:25K map: TL0051
1:10K map: TL05SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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