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hanger1599
carriage1603
frog1700
girdle-hanger1921
1921 Brit. Mus. Return 66 Anglo-Saxon iron girdle-hanger from Cliffe, near Rochester.
1923 C. FoxArchaeol. Cambr. Region vi. 271Girdle hangers. The simplest forms are a close copy in bronze of the housewife's keys of iron (a Roman type), the possession of which they doubtless symbolized.