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Description: | An incomplete cast in one copper-alloy possible early Anglo-Saxon girdle hanger. This object consists of a shaft with a suspension loop set at right angles to the plane of the shaft at one terminal, the other terminal is missing due to an old break, now worn. The suspension loop is incomplete as it has worn through on its rear edge. It is rectangular in shape measuring 6.5mm in surviving width and 7.1mm in length, it has an oval shaped perforation. The shaft of this possible girdle hanger is unusual and no parallel could be found for it. It flares into an uneven swollen middle, which is roughly lozenge-shaped. It measures 78.6mm in surviving length, 12.8mm in width, at its widest point and 6.2mm at its narrowest point, it tapers towards both terminals. The cross-section of the shaft is a low D shape and it is 2.8mm in thickness. The shaft is worn and the front face is decorated with two longitudinal boarder rows of tiny triangular shaped indentations. The back face is undecorated and both faces have small patches of active corrosion visible.
Girdle hangers are pseudo-keys which hung from women's belts, like this example they all consist of a shaft with a suspension loop turned at 90 degrees to the rest of the shaft, they are also usually only decorated on one face, however they do tend to be flatter and the shafts are more usually rectangular in shape. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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