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Leather purse
Retrieved from the Kongens Nytorv excavation was a leather purse, the style being known as ‘drawstring string pouch’.
The rectangular artefact was manufactured from sewing two pieces of leather together at their sides. The upper piece comprised a larger hole in the centre, probably for depositing coins or artefacts, and four smaller holes for leather straps to tighten and then close the purse. The holes would have been made by either using a bone or wooden small stake.
It appears that the purse was then thrown away when the stitching from one corner of the purse had split. The leather straps were then taken away and used elsewhere. The purse was dated by the surrounding pottery and clay pipes to the mid to late 17th Century.