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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon girdle hanger, possibly joining to SF-15B095 The bottom of the shaft and the E-shaped terminal are preserved. The shaft is slightly bent due to post-depositional damage and is decorated with a central vertical row of punched dots. At the base of the shaft is an E-shaped terminal that has outwards curving ends to the two outer arms, both of which have small triangular notches in the bottom edge of the curve. The bottom edge of the terminal is decorated with short incised vertical strokes, while the front face of the terminal has a border along its outer edge formed from punched dots. The back face of the object is flat and undecorated, and the entire object has a dark brown/grey patina with traces of corrosive copper-alloy products in places. It measures 32.89mm in length, 32.38mm in width, 2.34mm in thickness at break, and weighs 10.51g.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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