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Description: | Copper alloy section of a late medieval purse bar frame. Medieval purses with a metal bar would have been hung from a belt via a loop on the purse frame. This object is one half of the metal frame from which the fabric purse would have hung. The bar terminates with a globular knop and at the other end there is a rectangular socket with a hole through it. The loop to attach the purse to a belt would have been fixed through this hole and the other half of the frame which does not survive would have been attached at the other side. This example is a London Museum Catalogue Type B which have relatively short bars with no pendant loops to attach the bag (which would have been sewn directly onto the frame). The fragment weighs 10.02g and measures 57.6mm in length and 10.53mm in width. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1300
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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