Record ID: LANCUM-A7FD95
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval copper alloy purse bar with central loop dating 1450-1550AD. The suspension loop is intact as is the boss which has 8 slightly curved projections and may well have once held a heraldic device and would probably originally have been gilded. The length is 65mm and width 35mm probably an LMMC Type B variant, now Williams Class E1. Purse bars are a category of distinctive purses with metal frames and suspension features by which they are suspended from the girdle ... From the frame, made of iron, tin-plated iron, brass, silver or gold, hangs the leather bag part of the purse…
Created on: Tuesday 15th February 2011
Last updated: Thursday 15th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BURNLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-77C353
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval copper alloy purse bar with central loop dating 1450-1550AD. The suspension loop is intact as is the boss which is an irregular shield shape rather squared and may well have once held a heraldic device and would probably originally have been gilded. The loop is intact and rounded. One of the wings has broken off but the other is intact ending in a rounded knop. The length is 50mm, width 48mm and thickness 8mm. The diameter of the loop is 18mm and the knop is 8mm square. Purse bars are a category of distinctive purses with metal frames and suspension features by which t…
Created on: Tuesday 14th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST BRADFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-997A14
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast cu-alloy purse frame of type A2, dating to the late 15th - early 16th Century. This purse bar is made of copper-alloy, this particular type of bar is characterised by the use of inlaid niello which is now missing. Unlike other bars it does not depict animal heads on its terminals. The purse bar consists of the main bar, the central block and the two attachment plates. The loop, the shank and the rove are all missing, as are half of one arm and the terminal end. Instead the bar terminates at one end with a worn break and on the other end there is a small knop at end of the bar. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 13th May 2008
Last updated: Friday 21st December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnoldswick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-BAE458
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy purse frame bar. The suspension loop, and part of one arm and its terminal knop are missing. Dates between c1450 and c1600 AD. The length is 61mm, width 19mm, thickness 11mm, and the weight is 22.46g.
Created on: Monday 25th February 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Croston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-213C94
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper alloy purse side bar probably of type A1. It is circular in section, except for the remains of the squared central boss which is decorated with an indistinct motif and has the broken drilled socket for a suspension loop. To the side of this central boss is a beasts head gripping the side bar. The terminal end of the side bar is missing while the incomplete remains of an attachment flange is still present. It has a greenish patina. The length is 84mm, the width is 15mm thickness 14mm and the weight 35.50g.
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 19th May 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-EDFE10
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper alloy purse bar dating from c. AD 1475 to 1550. The purse bar is made up of two sections. There is a horizontal, circular cross sectioned bar with a square block in the centre. The bar terminates at either end. There is a circular perforation in the centre of the block thorugh which passes another spearate bar with a conical shaped separate knop on one end securing it in place. At the other end of this bar is an integral circular attachment loop. Both sides of both bars are undecorated. The object is 51.6mmm long, 46.8mm high, 8.8mm thick and weighs…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 25th April 2018
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: IARCH-1945EB
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
"…some dark-coloured material, fragments of which on examination appeared to be the remains of a leather pouch or wallet". stone
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Preesall with Hackensall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-2A56E4
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of cast copper alloy Late Medieval dating1475 to 1520 AD purse bar frame. This fragment represents the central boss of the purse bar and one of the extension arms the other is missing. There is a circular piercing through the boss which held the swivelling suspension loop. The boss and arm are decorated with incised lines on both sides possibly lattice decoration with a single groove possibly originall inlaid with niello. Similar to ESS-E5E090, SF-D57284 and HAMP-8BDF93 on the database. Similar bosses can be seen on purse bar frames illustrated in figure 50 of the London Mu…
Created on: Friday 26th July 2013
Last updated: Thursday 1st August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clitheroe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-436DE1
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy central suspension loop from a purse bar dating from the later medieval or early post-medieval period, that is c. AD1450-1550. The loop is sub-rectangular in shape with a central rectangular hole and a large tripartite collar moulding underneath. The shaft is broken, but would have terminated in a small knop, stopping the purse bar itself from sliding off. The arms of the purse bar would have been broadly sub rectangular in plan and probably D shaped in cross section with plain terminals. The underside of the bar has a flange projecting downwards, through which ar…
Created on: Friday 20th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 28th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nether Kellet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9CC8AC
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy post-medieval purse bar. Ward Perkins Type B3. The top ring now only has the lower curve connecting it to an arm which goes through an undecorated rectangular block. The bar extends through the block and ends in a thicker spherical knob. From either sides of the block a second arm would have extended out, now only one remains with a spherical knob at the end.
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Over Kellet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-89A85B
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval 1500-1600AD copper alloy purse bar with a circular loop handle. Ward-Perkins Class B1. The handle and the missing frame were secured with three separate rounded roves. The length is 64mm, the width is 58mm and the weight 34.46g.
Created on: Monday 6th February 2017
Last updated: Monday 6th February 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-F7E546
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object with double loop at both extremities one small and the other large likely to date from the medieval to the post-medieval period 1200-1600AD. The loops are decorated with incised lines with a closed hand gripping the larger loop and two long rounded projections at either side. It is probably too small for a terret and the appearance is more like a purse bar, but it could well be some item of horse harness, as there are hands holding (loose) rings on snaffle bits. Probably not Roman as they are usually hands holding fruit and other spherical objects. A snaffle bit ma…
Created on: Tuesday 26th April 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-38860C
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete but bent late medieval copper alloy purse bar (c.1450-1500), consisting of two side bars and the central sub rectangular block. The arms are circular in cross section and terminate in a flat conical knop and rove which would have held the missing purse frame in place. In the centre of the rove is a large integral rivet. At the junction of the central block and arm is a moulded zoomorphic animal-head grasping the arm in its mouth. Underneath the arms is an integral plate/s, with two circular attachment or sewing holes in each. Above this the arm is decorated with incised cr…
Created on: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-BB358C
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy purse bar and asociated loop dating to c1450-1550. The bar is short and flares outwards slightly. It can be classified as Ward Perkins Type B6. The central bock is roughly rectangular or shield-shaped and appears undecorated. The oval loop emerges from a pair of collars. Both conical securing terminal roves survive.
Created on: Tuesday 5th July 2016
Last updated: Thursday 21st July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Over Kellet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL758
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Hinge from a purse bar
Created on: Wednesday 25th August 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE BOLTON LE SANDS', grid reference and parish protected.