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Description: | An incomplete medieval cast copper-alloy purse hanger. This is a three arched example formed of a large semicircle flanked by two smaller ones; one of the side semicircles only survives in part. There are moulded cusps in the external angles between the arches. The ends feature collared expanded terminals. The artefact has a dark patina.
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. A close parallel can be found illustrated in Read (2001, 24; ref. 182). Other examples can be found in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 223; refs. 1197, 1198); these date to the second half of the 14th century. Purse hangers are generally dated to the 13th century (Geake 2001, 43). | 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: | 1250
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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