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Description: | Copper alloy Girdle Hanger fragment. Cast broken suspension loop and upper part of the shaft of a symbolic key. The shaft is thickest immediately below the loop, which is at right angles to the display face; the object is plain and flat behind. The uppermost pqart of shaft bears a stamped or incised motif comprising identical halves which togrther resemble a moustachioed face. Below this, the shaft is stepped and thinned, and its borders are followed by a closely spaced series of semi-circular or half ovulo stamps. This is one of a number of finds suggesting that Early Anglo-Saxon graves have been disturbed by cultivation hereabouts. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 475-575.Length: 30.2mm, Width: 6.8mm, Thickness (at loop): 5.3mm, Weight: 3.39gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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