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Description: | The object consists of one end of a rectangular strip of filigree-decorated gold sheet. It has a border formed by a false herringbone plait of two plain, twisted wires in-between two finely milled wires. The border encloses two lengthwise rows of back-to-back S-scrolls (only two scrolls on each side now surviving) separated by a single median wire, all finely milled. Fixed to a short gold shank soldered to the back of the sheet is a small, lozenge-shaped foil. The fragment is probably part of a plaque inserted into the front of a rectangular belt- or buckle-plate with a raised rim, such as the two examples from Gilton, Kent, which have gold plaques similarly decorated with filigree scrolls (including S-shapes) and would have formed part of matching sets of belt fittings (N ??berg, The Anglo-Saxons in England during the Early Centuries after the Invasion (Uppsala, 1926), figs. 230-31). More elaborate examples might have gold insets with animal interlace decoration in filigree, such as a buckle from a sword-belt, found in a male grave at Rijnsburg, Netherlands, dating to about 630/640, and possibly made in Kent (G Speake, Anglo-Saxon Animal Art and its Germanic Background (Oxford, 1980), pl. 9b; L Webster and M Brown (eds.), The Transformation of the Roman World AD 400-900 (London, 1997), p. 190 no. 36, pl. 56; H A Heidinga, Frisia in the First Millennium. An outline (Utrecht, 1997), fig. on p. 39). Dimensions and metal content: Length: 11mm; width: 8mm; thickness: 0.8mm; weight: 0.6g. X-ray fluorescence analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate gold content of 70 per cent. | Subjects: | Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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