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Description: | Complete early medieval, copper alloy girdle hanger, now slightly bent. This object is flat in section. It consists of a central rectangular shaft that terminates with arms that return at right angles, reminiscent of a letter E, and finish with diagonally angled ends. Beneath the arms, in continuation of the shaft, is a crescent terminal on a wasted neck. At the top of the shaft, an incised line approximately 5mm from the end, defines an area within which is a circular perforation used for suspension. The hanger is decorated with a border of punched dots that follows the entire outline of the object, including the crescentic terminal, but not around the perforation. The reverse of the hanger is plain. The object has an even dark green patina. It is 90.86mm long and 34.14mm wide. Examples of girdle hangers can be seen in MacGregor and Bolick, 1993, though none of these examples have a crescentic terminal. Though girdle hangers are almost exclusively limited to East Anglian areas, and as such well known, this is an unusual find for the county of Essex. | 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: | 475
570 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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