Rights Holder: North Lincolnshire Museum
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Unique ID: NLM-292D2A
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper alloy girdle hanger fragment, as kindly identified by the finder. Cast elongated bar with straight sides which converge towards a collared loop [now broken and subsequently smoothed by wear] in a plane at right angles to its surface. What is taken as the display face also bears a slightly thickened square below the loop. The object bears a high gloss which may suggest prolonged contact with textile, presumably in the course of use as ornament and sign of wifely office in the lifetime of its owner. This may have all but erased stamped ornament, of which faint traces may appear towards the top end, and whose relicts may be felt rather than observed elsewhere along its display face. The continued use of the object after the breakage of its suspension loop, implied by the polishing of its broken stubs, might hint at this object having been incorporated into a collection of objects which continued to be carried or curated after the girdle hanger had dropped out of use [or just dropped off!] in its original form. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600.
Length: 60.9mm, Width: 8.6mm, Thickness (clear of loop): 3.3mm, Weight: 7.88gms.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 500
Date to: Circa AD 600
Quantity: 1
Length: 60.9 mm
Width: 8.6 mm
Thickness: 3.3 mm
Weight: 7.88 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st March 2015
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Other reference: NLM29942
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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