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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon girdle hanger. The bottom of the shaft and half of the E-shaped terminal survive intact, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. The shaft is flat, oval shaped in section and is decorated on the front face with a central vertical row of punched crescents. At the base of the shaft is the E-shaped terminal with outer arms, one of which (right hand side) is missing due to old breaks. The surviving arm has a curved, semi-circular terminal with small triangular notch at its outer edge. A row of punched crescents runs down the centre of the surviving arm, curving to the outer edge at the base of the arm before extending along the bottom edge of the girdle hanger and back up the outer edge of the incomplete second arm. The back face is flat and undecorated, and the entire object has a green/brown patina with traces of active corrosive products in places. It measures 42.53mm in length, 32.57mm in surviving width, 3.35mm in thickness, and weighs 15.93g.This is an Early Anglo-Saxon girdle hanger, an object typically found in burial contexts associated with women. It finds parallels in other examples from Suffolk (see for example West, 1998: nos. 36.2, 53.1-2) and probably dates to the Early Anglo-Saxon period, c.450-700 AD.
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