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Description: | Fragment of openwork copper-alloy plate, probably a buckle plate and either late Roman or Anglo-Saxon (seventh/early eighth century) in date. It measures 21.5 mm wide and the surviving length is 24 mm. There are two complete T-shaped cut-outs which are oriented with the crossbars parallel to the long edges and the stems pointing towards the middle of the plate. There is another pair of cut-outs, both probably identical, on either side of the complete pair, but the plate is now broken across both of these and the edges have corroded. The upper surface of the plate is covered with quite neatly spaced ring-and-dot; one in the middle between the stems of the cut-out T shapes, one in each angle of each T, a row of five across the plate between the cut-outs and a single one outside the centre of each crossbar. No exact parallel has been found for this object, and while openwork buckle plates decorated with ring-and-dot are more common in the Late Roman period than in the middle Anglo-Saxon period, the use of a T-shaped motif (as, for example, in cloisonne garnet work of the seventh century) seems to point to an Anglo-Saxon rather than a Roman date.
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