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GIRDLE HANGER
Unique ID: SF-0883ED
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) girdle hanger fragment. The fragment appears to be the base of the shank and top of the ward terminal. it is rectangular in plan and cross-section. There is a central iron rivet through the base of the shank. The ward fragment is very worn and may have been of Felder Type B, girdle hangers with closed wards, although too little survives to be sure. Both faces of the fragment are decorated with two longitudinal parallel lines of punched annulets.
If this fragment is Felder Type B it would be phase FA2, wichi is Ad 480-550 in date in Penn-Brugmann (2007, p. 58)
Length: 19.99 mm
Width: 14.73 mm
Thickness: 2.22 mm
Weight: 1.82 g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 480
Date to: Circa AD 550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.99 mm
Width: 14.73 mm
Thickness: 2.22 mm
Weight: 1.82 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 17th June 2016
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: RLM 081
Other reference: Finders reference SS14 259
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: Rendlesham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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