File:Medieval or Post Medieval purse bar frame (plan and reverse). (FindID 203697).jpg

English: A cast copper alloy purse bar. The purse bar has a central rectangular boss with a vertical perforation in the centre. The terminals of the perforation are expanded in diameter slightly, particularly on one face. The reverse of the boss has a vertical crack in the centre where the perforation has made the boss wall particularly narrow. Protruding from either side of the boss there is an integral circular sectioned arm which terminates with a bulbous knop. The knop is decorated with horizontal rounded ridges. The bar has an incomplete dark brown patina. It measures 67.13mm long and 10.53mm wide across a knop. It weighs 15.8g. Margeson (Margeson, S. 1993 Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey, Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology 58) illustrates a longer example, No. 291 whose terminals are similar. This is dated to the 15th and 16th century. Other examples are illustrated in the London Museum Catalogue (Ward-Perkins, J.B. 1940 London Museum: Medieval Catalogue London ), Figure 52 and B1 and B3 are particularly similar to the recorded example. All these date to the late 15th to early 16th centuries.