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Description: | Gold tongue-shaped front or back plate from a strap-end, buckle plate, or other similar object. There are two empty rivet holes at the attachment edge and a single empty rivet hole at the blunt point. The edges are slightly raised on one face, but there are no other traces of decoration. The edges are slightly convex, one more so than the other.This object is similar in shape to early Anglo-Saxon strap-ends (e.g. those from graves 393 and 397 at Morning Thorpe cemetery; Green, Rogerson and White 1987, vol. 2, p. 347, fig.444, G and p. 352, fig.449, M), though these are not found in gold and normally have just one single large rivet hole at the attachment end.The item resembles a back-plate from some form of buckle or other triangular fitting, and the convex edges may suggest a date in the 8th or 9th century. An example of the kind of fitting which could have had such a backplate is the 8th-century gilded silver triangular object with three rivets from Tarrant Hinton, Dorset (TAR 2005/6, no. 256).Whatever the precise nature it was clearly of very high status, as gold is relatively uncommon in the middle Anglo-Saxon period and to use it on a backplate is remarkable at any date.
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