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Description: | A well-preserved medieval cast copper-alloy purse hanger. A three arched example with a central inverted keyhole-shaped opening flanked by a pair of open semicircles. The two prongs at the top echo the cusps in the external angles between the arches. The ends feature collared expanded terminals. Purse hangers were freely swinging, held at each end, usually by a bar mount, to a girdle. When they were not used to attach purses to belts such objects were often used to attach knives. There is a close, albeit broken, parallel illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 219-224; ref. 1197), dating to the second half of the 14th century. Purse hangers are generally dated to the 13th century (Geake 2001, 43).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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