File:Late medieval to early post-medieval purse frame fragment (FindID 145939).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(840 × 1,024 pixels, file size: 199 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Late medieval to early post-medieval purse frame fragment
Photographer
The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Julian Watters, 2006-10-13 14:10:44
Title
Late medieval to early post-medieval purse frame fragment
Description
English: A fragment of a copper-alloy purse frame of late 15th to early 16th century AD date. This fragment comes from the bottom part of the pendent frame of a Type A4 to A6 purse (London Museum; 1967; pp. 162-7).

The piece is an inverted "V" shape in section and is decorated on its outer face with a pattern of niello-filled double cross-hatched lines. A small sewing hole is located on the plain inner face.

The object measures 37.7mm long, 8.1mm thick and 18.2mm high; it weighs 8.36g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hertfordshire
Date between 1475 and 1525
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1475-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1525-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 145939
Old ref: BH-F8D4C7
Filename: Med purse frame 06 135 - 47.jpg
Credit line
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/116501
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/116501/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/145939
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 2 December 2020)

Licensing[edit]

w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Attribution: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current05:46, 7 February 2017Thumbnail for version as of 05:46, 7 February 2017840 × 1,024 (199 KB) (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, BH, FindID: 145939, medieval, page 6752, batch sort-updated count 81814

Metadata